Incidence of poverty in the institutional receiving and dismissal of children and adolescents

Abstract

This article discusses social protection for children and adolescents in Brazil, from the colonial period to the present day, in order to provide a socio-institutional analysis of the institutional foster care process, with attention to the incidence of poverty during this process. This is exploratory qualitative research, whose data comes from bibliographic and documentary sources, and is epistemologically based on the critical dialectic method. The results show that poverty is an incident factor in the trajectory of institutional care. From the earliest civilizations, when these subjects were invisible to any rights, to today's society, when they are blamed for the social reality to which they are subjected. Even after advances in the field of citizenship rights, such as the Statute of the Child and Adolescent, there are gaps in social protection for children and young people. As an example, we can mention the countless barriers faced in the act of disconnection and institutional care.