Práticas Discursivas dos Avós relacionadas à Guarda dos Netos

Abstract

The presented dissertation arises from a subproject linked to the umbrella project – Subjective Productions in Family Litigation for Custody of Children: implications for their social development. The a priori research field was the project Educative Justice of Families, resulting from the project above. The researcher has had a close relationship with its object – the grandparents discursive practices related to grandchildren guardianship, based on the Social Constructionism and the qualitative method developed through dialogical interanimation. In this respect, three out of five grandparents involved in this research were selected of the project Educative Justice of Families, with active researcher engagement. The two other attendees were selected by the researcher based on information from their professional context. The inclusion criterion was the grandparents availability invited to collaborate on research. Household visit was used as a resource for proposed instruments being achieved– writing and sentences complementation. Some of the most significant results indicate that: 1) grandparents suffer psychic illness processes because of the complex relationship family/justice, according to what is imbricated in their discursive practices on their sons' litigation; 2) grandparents stir up litigation when they do not believe that their offspring and former sons-in-law or daughters-in-law are capable of raising their grandchildren; 3) the parental force of grandparents in a litigated family obstruct parents to assume their own parental roles autonomously.