Abstract
This study analyzes the journey of four families, deprived of family power, by the Child and Adolescent Rights Guarantee System in Brazil. The psychoanalytically discourse analysis was used in the corpus of information of each case, comprised of documents relating to the accompaniment of the cases and interviews, carried out with family members and institutional agents. The results point to discursive formations that naturalizes punitive judicial actions of suspension or destitution of family power, hegemonically applied to poor families, in which women are considered as the main culprits for failures in care management. There is also discontinuity in follow-ups, resumed when the application of these protective measures is repeated, assuming the symptomatic characteristic of failure. Listening to the actors in these processes emerges as a subjective rectification strategy, going beyond prescriptive and normative practices, which ratify exclusion and the criminalization of poverty, particularly of black families.
Keywords:
institutional care; destitution of family power; specialized social protection