A culpabilização das mulheres jovens nas ações de destituição do poder familiar

Abstract

This research paper analyzes the actions for the removal of family power that were processed in the District of São Gonçalo (Rio de Janeiro) during the most critical period of the COVID-19 pandemic (between March 2020 and March 2022). The motivation came from the professional practice as a social worker in a Court for Children, Youth and the Elderly and the empirical finding that families who lose family power are mainly formed by young and black women. We hypothesized that this phenomenon was connected to the racial belonging of those families. Thus, based on the understanding that Brazil is a dependent capitalist country located on the periphery of the system, we began the investigation with the perspective of understanding the condition of the working class in this panorama in order to reflect on the real living conditions of the families on whom the weight of a decision of deprivation of family power falls. Likewise, we proceeded to recover the policy of attention to childhood carried out in the country since its colonization process in order to identify the aspects of permanence and modifications. Through the production of a pioneering social worker, we rescued the treatment of childhood during the beginnings of the Social Service profession in the country as a means to reflect on the professional practice today. We read and analyzed the proposed set of processes in order to understand the motivations recorded and used for the loss of family power. The reading of the documents showed that the material living conditions of the families are recorded in the files without due consideration of how this dimension institutes and is institutive of the possibilities of care provided by the family. Thus, the so-called risks and negligence used to raise the actions of removal of family power, supported by the relevant legal framework, guided by the doctrine of comprehensive child protection, explain content similar to that used in the phase of the doctrine of the irregular situation of the minor. The families of the most impoverished segments, especially those headed by young women appear as the group most affected by this logic, that is, suspension of family power towards destitution, due to not contemplating the bourgeois nuclear model.