No labirinto do abuso sexual intrafamiliar: entre seduções, ameaças e segredos

Abstract

The present Social Service course’s conclusion work intends to reveal the way that intrafamily sexual abuse impacts on the family relations. Therefore, four main goals were worked out: to determinate the occurrence of the intrafamily sexual abuse; to understand how the abuses happen inside family relations; to analyze how the intrafamily sexual abuse is seized by the family and to understand the family dynamics after the discorey of the abuse. The method chosen to accomplish this research was the dialectical-critical and three categories: historicity, totality and contradiction. The research was accomplished by a qualitative character, through the bibliographic study with non probabilistic and intentional sampling. The data collect was made by elaboration of two main scripts applied on seventeen articles, of the areas of knowledge of social services, collective health, anthropology and psychology. The research made it possible to apprehend the complexity that is built on situations of intrafamily sexual abuse and how challenging it is for researchers to construct knowledge in a critical and total perspective. The discussions made throughout this work showed that structural violence crosses the daily life of family relationships and together with poverty, the patriarchal system and the naturalization of violence compel processes of domination and unequal power relations between adult and child, triggering in abuses in its most diverse expressions. Thus, intrafamily sexual abuse was identified in the analyzed productions, as a phenomenon that is socially produced and that finds in children and adolescents the susceptibility that concerns all the rite of seduction, power, subordination and silence that are necessary for their reproduction within the families.