Objective:

To know how childhood abuse affects, in the current parenting experience.

Materials and methods:

The research methodology is qualitative, exploratory, descriptive, the technique used to obtain data was the interview, focused on abuse lived in the past and the current experience of parenting based on past events, the sample was intentional from 6 men who are fathers, whose participation is voluntary, after explaining the purpose of the same, their informed consent is obtained and with it the verbal storytelling. The process of analysis of narratives obtained allows us to identify the diachronic evolution of the story by identifying common categories of analysis of the participants.

Results:

After interviewing six men, who are parents whose ages range from 26 to 38 years old, the narratives of the story were obtained, identifying the following categories: violence experienced in childhood, damages, consequences and repercussions in the adult life, experience of abuse in parenthood and type of parenting.

Conclusions:

The trauma left by the abuse created a psychic imprint that has a reactive or transformative impact on their parenting experience, ideas are identified around to justify the behavior of their parents, parental or authority figures, the current parenting experience removes past abuse events and thereby violence experienced is not normal. The consequences in adulthood and the lack of effective behavior management strategies towards their children are also identified The present study tries to emphasize the importance of changing violent upbringing and there by prevent damage to the evolutionary process of young children. This requires to generate a positive parenting based on choosing to raise free of any type of child abuse.