Transcript Social Work Social Development – 2012 – Action and Impact

Social Work Social Development
– 2012 – Action and Impact
Drª Denise Carmen de Andrade
Neves
PUC/GO and UFG
BRASIL
Domestic violence against children and
the public policies – the situation of
families attended to a health unit in
Goiânia – GO Brasil
• Domestic violence is one of the most
difficult kinds of violence to be detected,
because it happens in the private
ambience and it involves the adult’s
coercion against the child or the
adolescents.
• In Brazil the violence is considered a
problem of public health, which demands
compulsory notification.
• The public health units must qualify their
service to care for victims of violence;
however, there have been many
hindrances to become effective.
• In this work, domestic violence is analysed
considering that the absence or
precariousness of the public policies
regarding families in vulnerable situation
favours the happening or the perpetuation
of this kind of violence.
• Were considered in the analysis of
domestic violence the implications of
socio-historical, economic and cultural.
• Had as its starting point the understanding
of the relationships between:
a) the living conditions of families,
domestic violence and social rights;
b) the occurrence of structural violence as
a factor influencing the occurrence of
domestic violence;
c) socio-historical, economic, political and
cultural rights and the occurrence of
domestic violence.
• In Brazil, since the 1990, there is a Code
to protect the Child and the Adolescent
(Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente).
• It’s a law that guarantees children’s and
adolescents’ rights, as well as sets, among
other aspects, protection against all kind of
violence.
• Thus, the analysis about the reality of
domestic violence against children and
adolescents held in this research is closely
related living conditions of families and the
violation and disrespect for their rights
result of the social inequalities present in
our reality.
• It’s understood that the conditions of life
are associated with the guarantee of basic
rights such as access to food, education,
health, housing, leisure, work and
citizenship should be defined and
implemented by the State.
• Public policies are the instrument of
implementation of these rights.
• It’s understood that domestic violence cuts
across all social classes and consists of a
multicausal phenomenon.
• However, in families whose basic needs
are not met, it can be stated that this type
of violence is enhanced.
• Our research was conducted in one of the
most important units Health in GoiâniaGO/Brasil.
• It was conducted with fifteen families,
whose children or adolescents were
attended in this unit between the years
2005 and 2010.
• Of the various manifestations of domestic
violence evidenced in this group were
identified: 33% as negligence, 33% sexual
violence, 20% psychological violence and
13% physical violence.
• By analyzing the families’ access to public
policies, we could see that 73% did not
have access to social facilities to their
children or adolescents (e.g. nurseries or
programs that hinder children’s work)
• This evaluation is reinforced by the data
acquired in the results of the medical
records analysed, because, in 60% of
them, there was not a sequence in the
treatment of children or adolescent in
situation of violence.
• As for the access to outside classroom
activities (sport, art, tutoring), 53% of the
families didn’t have access to them.
• When they evaluated Education Policy,
half of the families considered it poor or
bad.
• The same opinion was given by 87% of
the families about Health Policy.
• Social policy, when it reaches a public
character and not plural or mixed, must
seek to serve, especially the basic social
needs of citizens in order to ensure that all
such as law, living conditions and welfare.
This public character only becomes
possible when social policy "is based on
the principles of social inclusion, equal
rights and universal access to social
goods and services"
• In this sense, the issues relating to living
conditions and domestic violence against
children and adolescents can not be treated in
isolation but as part of structural violence that
plagues the whole society because it is
embedded in the Brazilian reality, unfair,
unequal and violent for the majority of the
population that lives and survives in a reality
marked by the contradiction of economic growth
on the one hand, and poverty and inequality on
the other.
• Thus, empirical research confirms the
questions initially formulated, among
which it claims to be the absence of
effective universal public policies, with
actions based on comprehensiveness, a
risk factor for families in situations of social
vulnerability, contributing to greater
exposure the occurrence of domestic
violence.
• In this sense, the research identified in the
everyday life of families who have
experienced or experiencing domestic
violence, lack of effective public policies
that may have contributed to the
perpetuation or the occurrence of
domestic violence.
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• It is understood as necessary in this
relationship of responsibility, care,
because it runs the risk of blaming only the
families, when one must also grasp the
omission of the authorities in relation to
ensuring social protection for families in
situations of social vulnerability.
• It's thinking about the seriousness of
childhood violated it becomes necessary
to revise the social protection, since
violence can cause irreparable damage to
the physical and psychological
development of children and adolescents.
• To ensure public social protection
becomes essential participation of the
different areas of knowledge, to
apprehend and intervene in this issue,
noting the different determinations of
singular and collective, in order to rescue
its historical dimension and reveal the
possibilities for change that reality .