La concepción de la sexualidad en las personas con síndrome de Down, desde la mirada de los padres de familia: caso de estudio en la Fundación Cultural Edgar Palacios en el año lectivo 2019-2020

Abstract

Sexuality in people with disabilities has not been taken into account by Ecuadorian society, which is why it is seen as a taboo subject. Parents of youth with disabilities do not think that their child can go through this transition to adulthood. The purpose of this work is to learn about the conception of sexuality of people with Down syndrome, from the perspective of parents at the Edgar Palacios Cultural Foundation during the 2019-2020 school year, through qualitative research, documentary and field, which consisted of in-depth interviews with parents, being the essential descriptive approach in the study. Within the Ecuadorian social framework, the sexuality of people with Down syndrome is not taken into account, it has no relevance since due to their condition they are infantilized and therefore it is not considered that there is development in their sexuality. The main result about the sexuality of people with Down syndrome is that parents tend to believe that their children will not go through a common development like other young people their age, this belief is due to ignorance that have on the subject.