Violence against children and adolescent: breaking the silence

• Autor(a) principal: Monteiro, Estela Maria Leite Meirelles
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Brandão Neto, Waldemar, Gomes, Islan Moisalye Barbosa, Freitas, Roberta Biondi Nery de, Brady, Camila Lima, Moraes, Marta Úrsula Barbosa de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Rev Rene (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/4826
• topic: Adolescent; Child abuse; sexual; Nursing.

This is a descriptive exploratory study of qualitative approach, which aims to identify situations of violence experienced by children and adolescents in a public school community in Santo Amaro, Recife-PE. The study involved 58 middle school children and adolescents. An interview form was assigned with speech registrations, subsidizing the construction of the fol­lowing categories: 1 – situations that children and adolescents wouldn’t like to have experienced; 2 -Children and adolescents expectations and wishes for the future. Among the situations that young people would not like to have experienced, the fol­lowing items were identified: intra-family violence; situations of exclusion; interpersonal violence and death; early sexual initiation and sexual violence. As for future expectations and wishes of children and adolescents it was shown the desire for a future with changes in their neighborhood by reducing violence. They also long for the possibility of getting training and professional performance which represent a social status disconnected to the image of marginalization which is part of the daily life of the surrounding area.