Event #8

The postmodern family with its very few, much-desired children, so filled with expectations, suggests to the maternal and paternal minds new thoughts and affections in respect to those of the past. During childhood, the creation of a good relational atmosphere promotes the child’s development of skills, giving the impression that, despite the effort, things are going well. Adolescent metamorphosis, instead, is more and more often bewildering, allowing us to glimpse a fragile son or daughter, an unruly one, who struggles to be born socially. Accustomed to conflicts and deep-seated angst, new mothers and fathers wonder about the natural propensity of role: the mother is pushed towards guilt feelings and a re-evocation of a repertoire of childhood treatments, the father, instead, towards an attempt to regulate and defend an ethics that is no longer used. Adolescent change, after having at first created illusions, then deluded and terrified, will end up being surprising: from the rubble the signs of a new future project will emerge.