Comprehensive Protection of Children and Adolescents in Brazil: A Principle in Deconstruction by Neoliberalism
Children and Adolescents’ Rights – Principle of Integral Protection – Rights Guarantee System – Neoliberalism.
The problem of this research is presented by the need to investigate why, after more than thirty years of existence, it is still not possible to experience in Brazil the effective application of the Principle of Integral Protection established in the Federal Constitution of 1988 and in the Statute of Children and Adolescent? The research aims to contribute to reflections on the reasons why family, society and the State have difficulty fulfilling their role and even understanding it within the terms of the Statute. What factors threaten full protection? Authors such as Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval expose Neoliberalism as a rationality, which influences the individual, society and the State in different aspects. In this context, there is a hypothesis: that Neoliberalism prevents the full validity of the Principle of Comprehensive Protection of Children and Adolescents in Brazil. Finally, the research assumes that the ECA emerged through the same constituent values and social movements at the time of the promulgation of the 1988 Federal Constitution and, like it, is a guiding legal norm, aimed at transforming the Brazilian reality, with the possibility of be fully implemented. Analyzing how Neoliberalism has contributed to these norms not being fully implemented in Brazil, that is, how neoliberal policy hinders or even prevents the effective application of the Principle of Right to Integral Protection of Children and Adolescents in Brazil, is the general objective and the contribution of research. .