Le rappresentazioni della genitorialità, a partire dallo sguardo degli operatori dei Consultori familiari

The complexity challenges families in taking on and exercising the parental function. To become parents is a process of lifelong education, in a continuous interactions between subjects and institutions, to negotiate the parental function and to convey models andstyles of action. The aim of this article is to investigate, in a pedagogical perspective, the representations of parental roles, starting from the narratives of some professionals, working in the “Consultori familiari” of Christian inspiration. The analysis shows consolidated views and implicit, to bring out some useful dimensions to understand how they can affect the construction of parental and family identity.