A LUTA PELOS SENTIDOS

A “NEGLIGÊNCIA FAMILIAR” E SUA PRODUÇÃO DISCURSIVA EM PROCESSOS DE SUSPENSÃO DO PODER FAMILIAR

Abstract

This article performs an analysis of the discourses of the category “family negligence” enunciated by the Tutelary Council and the Public Ministry in five cases of suspension of family power in the year 2020 in a Childhood Court in the southern region of Brazil. Our intention is to understand the meanings attributed by these institutions to “family neglect”, that is, to apprehend how the meaning around the neglect category is produced by guardianship counselors and prosecutors and its objective consequences in the families of children and adolescents inserted in these processes. As a methodology, we used the interpretative methodology of Discourse Analysis (DA) in a critical and dialectical perspective to understand the ideological formations present in the discourses of “family neglect”. Finally, it was possible to conclude in the research that the discourses of "family neglect" mask processes of individualization, criminalization and privatization of families under the sign of neglect, in addition, the discourses also reproduce stereotypes of care, organization, affection and hygiene that expand the processes of institutional and symbolic violence of these families in the processes of protection measures for children and adolescents.