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This project discusses the physical violence against children in its several daily manifestations. This kind of violence occurs inside many societies and has some specificities that characterize each one of them. This violence is analyzed in its several representations throughout the time in Brazil. The frame of reference is the promulgation of the Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (“status of children and adolescents”) (1990) up to the Law Project 7672/10 elaborated by the Secretaria Geral Dos Direitos Humanos (“General Secretary of Human Rights”), of the Republic Presidence, known as the Lei da Palmada (“The Spank Law”). This project provides the prohibition of physical punishment and cruel or degrading treatment for children and teenagers. It is observed that several countries have already embraced laws that aim to restrain the violence against children and teenagers.
From the studies of Ariès, we found a change in family organization e the part assigned to children inside societies, throughout the history. According to this author, since the XVII century, adults (parents) assume the position of guardians of the bodies and souls of the infants. From this point, is established a hierarchy of powers that did not exist in previous periods. Therefore, we are able to say that children are, historically, subject and represented.
The physical violence, traditionally, legitimized by the church and the state, is on control device, subjection and infantilization of the bodies. Treating the child as an "absent" from the scene of social life. The introduction of the violence against children theme in the public agenda promotes a change in the paradigm referred above. Thus, in this project it is aimed to rebuild the representation children make of the violence which they are submitted to. Accordingly, it is used a methodological resource that prioritizes the graphical representation (drawings), games and focal groups.