REPRESENTAÇÃO SOCIAL DA VIOLÊNCIA DOMÉSTICA CONTRA CRIANÇAS E ADOLESCENTES

Abstract

From semi-structured interviews, this work intends to inform about the content of social representation of housing violence practiced by the family against their teenagers. Besides showing the influence of this violence at the social context, as an inevitable reason to tritely refer to the drugs consuming. Two groups were taken in account in this research: Group 1 is constituted by 21 teenager folks (guardian or brothers), enrolled at a public school in Goiânia. Group 2, is formed by 17 teenager folks, whose teenagers are attended by a Tutorial Counseling from the north side of the town. The results indicated that members from Group 1 grandparents and brothers see the violence as a daily consequence of the topical society, linked up to the family problems. While the parents, who belong to this Group, see the violence as an adolescence phenomenon. The bad conditions of working are invoked to justify the missing of familiar attending that shows up in the educational process, beyond their ability to notice the school as a positive element, capable to help on prevention of housing violence. The student who doesn t attend classes very often is considered as relapse with education, responsible for violent behavior with other students, teachers and employees. On group 2, is reinforced the idea of the drugs traffic, vandalize, along with death menace and, sometimes, with the own death. The school, for this group is taken as invasive. Folks from the Tutorial Counseling associate the violence to the adolescence and the religion abstention, because normally it helps teenagers figure out their bounds .We can notice that the male part of this group consider the violence as a characteristic from teenager s educational process, while the female part associate some difficulties to educate their kids to delinquency. Both groups, agree that teens are the biggest part of population vulnerable to violence, with concrete possibilities of being murdered due attending dangerous places, being exposed to all kinds of risky situations, just like murdering, shootings, death beyond their own neighborhood, already judged as a suspect area. They either agree to dislike violence only when it comes along with death, especially if the action is made by a teen against his guardians or vice-versa. The other point they still have the same opinion about, is the aversion to sexual abuse against children and teens made by folks.