Confined families, unprotected childhoods

notes on the impacts of the Covid19 pandemic under the aegis of the Bolsonaro government

Abstract

Given the pandemic scenario, the importance of social protection systems around the world is evident. In Brazil, the Covid19 pandemic, associated with an ongoing process of dismantling public policies, intensifies many of the challenges to be faced, especially with regard to the protection of children and adolescents, especially those who are poor, black and peripheral. and their families. This article focuses on the analysis of the effects of social confinement experienced and still difficult to measure, on the protective capacity of Brazilian families in relation to their children and adolescents, as well as on the conjunctural aspects of the rise and intensification of conservative and neoliberal guidelines. under the aegis of the Bolsonaro government. The notes derive from reflections established in the context of the Specialization Course in Children and Adolescents' Rights, offered by the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, through the School of Councils of Pernambuco. The reflection proposed here turns to the challenges of the present time, the contours of a family relationship between the State and society throughout history and perspectives for the future in relation to the work of protecting children in a country under the effects of several crises, whether from the history of the present time, or those outlined and, to some extent, crystallized throughout Brazil's social formation, with a more specific focus for the effects of the pandemic, still ongoing, of Covid19.