Laços afetivos que (des)ligam famílias, adolescentes e abrigo

Abstract

In the daily of many Brazilian families there are those which do not achieve for some reasons such, as the lack of attendance of the State, the protection of their children that go (in the end), sometimes, to a shelter institutions. In the shelter the adolescent needs to be the less possible time to return to it’s family and to the community conviviality if he or she can and want to. While they are in the institution, they are affected by emotions and feelings related to the own shelter and the origin family. There are bows of affection that connect and disconnect institutionalized adolescents to their family and to the shelter where they are settled. The purpose of this work is to research what affections are and if these affections effeet the right to a family and community conviviality, contributing and problematizing for the construction of measures for this. The public of this research is adolescent from 12 (twelve) to 18 (eighteen) years old that are enjoying the shelter as a protection measure. Two shelters were researched, one of them only for boys, of a No-government Organization and the other one only for girls with government nature in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará. Intending to apprehend the adolescents’affects with this certain atmosphere an Affectionate Map instrument was used, adapted to this research in order to know the adolescents’ affections related to the shelter. To deepen subjects from the Maps and knowing the affections related to the original family. It was used individual interview. A Diary of Field was also used and it allowed to enrich the work of the collection of data. First, the data were picked collected through the Affectionate Maps and then the interviews were made. The Diary of Field received registration since the very first moment of the collection afterwards. It was possible to notice through these instruments that the attraction image prevailed the adolescents considering the opportunities they had while sheltered. The protection supplied by the institution marked a new image apprehended in the analysis of the Affectionate Maps, the refuge one as derivation of the contrast image. It was also seen that a long period of shelter does not generate pertinence, he or she does not associate it to a positive steem by the atmosphere and it also contributes to a “separation” of the adolescents and their families. The adolescents did not to be indefinitely in the institution, they wanted to return to their home because the shelter was not felt as one by them. It was glimpsed that the affectionate bows between adolescents and their families are kept besides the distance. The opportunities and the protection offered by the shelter are what keeps the adolescents in. It was verified the shelter exercises a mediator function while it protects and prepares the adolescents returning to their family and also offers attractions to them to be inserted in a world of more opportunities. Practicing that mediator function, the shelter contributes to the effect of the right to the family and community conviviality. However, the research suggests that the reception institutions respect the beginnings of the measure of the shelter protection which has it’s exceptional character in last instance and temporary. It is necessary to effect the rights of the adolescents and their families for their worthily care and protection, offering them what is necessary for their powerful growth. It is no longer a need for the adolescents to be in a vulnerability situation to have access to basic rights such as a family and community conviviality.