Abstract

SANTOS, Andréa Marília Vieira. Convicted parents: invisible children. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2006, vol.26, n.4, pp. 594-603. ISSN 1414-9893.

This research aims to stimulate a discussion that we consider of great social relevance. As students of Psychology, curious about the human behavior and the social relations, a question calls our attention: how does a small child go through the experience of the submitted paternal reference to the guardianship of the State? Although they represent enormous advances, in daily life, the Law of Criminal Execution and the Statute of the Child and the Adolescent seem irreconcilable: the right to conviviality and the bond of the child with the convicted are, in fact, barred. The rules of behaviors equal the treatment given to adults and children. A child of four years old says: "...we crouch and raise three times. It is equal to pee". It is essential to review the adopted procedures; what happens can, at least, be taken as bad-treatment.

Keywords : Children; Jail; Parents; Citizenship.

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