Narrativas y continuidad de vínculos en padres que perdieron hijos

Abstract

This article deals with the research on continuing bonds between mothers and fathers with their dead children. This qualitative study with phenomenological approach is encompassed in the investigations of mourning through auto narratives. We start from a model of social understanding of mourning in order to explore how the continuing bonds may imply the attaching to the memory of the deceased through consolation, from the analysis of the narrative processes where the mourners go through, which serve to appropriate and connect their personal meanings, which complement and reinforce within the cultural group to which they belong. Many mothers and fathers, in addition to being supported in their faith, are connected with the elements and events that they establish with those who share the pain of loss and with those who develop rituals and reconstruct new sociocultural narratives. This helps them to maintain continuity bonds with their deceased children, by integrating that connection into the social reality of their community as they move forward in their "new" lives.