Millennial Generation: Challenges in Parenting
Maria Presado (PT), Mário Cardoso (PT), Ana Frade (PT), Andrea Carvalho (PT)
[Presado] Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa, [Cardoso] Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa, [Frade] , [Carvalho] Centro Hospitalar do Oeste
Context: Nowadays we see a paradigm shift of the younger ones that will be the new parents in the future. The young, born in the 2000s, nicknamed millennials and often connotated as spoiled and lazy but also as highly technological and enterprising. The objective of this work is to contribute to the reflection on the paradigms of parenting and the transition to analyze how the society looks at parenting and its challenges. As a methodology we carried out a narrative review of the literature reviewing newspapers as well as using the databases Nursing & Allied Health Collection, CINAHL and MEDLINE integrated in EBSCO. There were selected the articles with the following descriptors: 1. Parenthood; 2. millennial. Given the scope of the theme, a temporal limiter was not applied. As results, it was found in the literature that young people consider parenting more important than marriage, they have greater confidence in new technologies, a diversity of parental modalities was born, it is privileged the parents who stay at home, there is a greater financial investment allied to the 1st late child. It is also reported that there is greater collaboration in the division of labor between the couple. As a conclusion, it is assumed that there is a greater use of technology, used with the aim of obtaining greater reliability in the knowledge, and use evidence-based research and practice to adapt to the new challenges.