A BIBLIOGRAPHIC STUDY ON THE FAMILY FOCUS IN PUBLIC POLICIES ATTENTION OF THE CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENT

Abstract

Public politics for children and adolescents in Brazil are suffering transformations, especially from the 90s on. The recognition in the centrality of the family in the politics and social programs became practically consensual and it has been generating discussions in national and international extent. With that reference, we developed and present here the results of a bibliographical research that intended to analyze, through the Brazilian bibliographical production, in psychology newspapers indexed in the Scielo data base, how the families have been approached in the elaboration and implementation of the public politics of protection to children and adolescents, from 1990 to July 2010. The research was accomplished searching from the key words "family", "children and adolescents" and "public politics". We identified and located twenty-nine articles in six different journals, twelve of them were selected after text reading. The thematic contents, found in the papers were classified according to five nuclei. Although most of the researched authors recognize the importance of the family as first socialization group, independently of their configurations, the results confirm the fragility of the public politics and social programs in Brazil with centrality in the family for the protection and assistance to children and adolescents.