Dissertação Fernanda Flaviana de Souza Martins - PUC Minas

ABSTRACT
The basic principle of this dissertation concerns to the domestic negligence that
happens against children between 0 and 2 years-old by their poor family. The
concept of negligence is discussed here not as a synonymous of the poorness
condition or considering poorness as its only cause, but as a result of parents and
son’s subjectives experiences. The option for focusing young children families has
two main reasons: first, the biggest occurrence of this kind of violence against this
age mark’s children; second, the relevance of the affectives ties that binds children to
their parents in this development stage, point of view that Winnicott stands out.
Domestic negligence is the most recurring type of familiar violence in the Tutelar
Councils and in the Children and Youth Councils of Belo Horizonte, city where this
research was carried out. Although negligence’s concept has been used to describe
situations that involves children in rights violation’s condition, it’s also used as
poorness synonym.
Case study with families that took their children sheltered in Casa Novella because of
domestic negligence was the chosen methodology. This choice _ case study _
justifies for the interest of studing negligence through familie’s outlook. A non-
reconnaissance posture of the domestic negligence performed is a common point
among these families. They can’t associate their children’s official protection to the
precarious conditions they live and also to all kind of privation they suffer. To them,
they’ve lost their children because of their unsuitable houses or neighbours
unfounded deletion. Finally, this research follows that poorness doesn’t imply
domestic negligence, even though it has a close relation to its emergence or
aggravation.
Key words: domestic negligence, family, children, poorness.