Os Olhares Maternos Diante da Medida Socioeducativa de Privação de Liberdade em Goiás

Abstract

This study originated from the research entitled Estudo do sistema socioeducacional para adolescentes autores de atos infracionais no estado de Goiás, coordinated and financially supported by Secretaria Especial Direitos Humanos da Presidência da República (SEDH/PR). Based on the empirical material – interviews with adolescents who committed infractions, their family members, and participants in the system of guaranteeing child’s and adolescent’s rights –, the interviews with the adolescents’ mothers were privileged due to the importance of the emotional care continuity that this family figure represents to their sons. In the social-historical perspective, the process of signification is essential to human development and is defined as the dialectical process, marked by qualitatively different phases, determined by the activity mediated by language. To these mothers, serving the time of the socialeducational measure of detention is a hard situation though relevant for their sons’ lives. Maternal participation in the units of social-educational measure is restricted to their visits to the sons, which evidences the lack of public policies aiming at inserting the family in the social-educational context and facilitating the socialization in families of popular classes. In the mothers’ perspective, the reasons to commit the infractions are related to the transformations of their sons because of financial and relational difficulties with the family imposed to the contemporary adolescents. According to the mothers, as their sons serve the time of the social-educational measure of detention, good changes take place in their family relationships, despite the inevitable temporary separation, both physical and emotional, between them. Simultaneously with these good changes, the mothers nurture hope in the expectation that their sons will have a future which is different from the reality they live.