A política de assistência à criança e ao adolescente em situação de risco e abandono na cidade de Maringá 1990-2004

Abstract

The present dissertation has as purpose to verify the views and practices which were directed to children and adolescents in situation of risk and abandonment on the municipality of Maringá, through a specialized bibliography, about politics of service around these subjects and about the photographic reports from local newspaper. On the aim of realize what meanings were built conceming to these characters on remarkable moments from the history of this country, it was necessary to travel around the trajectory of the abandonrnent of children, as well as the ways of "protection" and the institutions destined to the service of them until reach the Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente, which marks a new paradigm on the treatment with these subjects in formation. We realize that the period from 2001 to 2004 represented a moment of significant changes on the way of viewing and treat these characters from Maringá city. The photographic reports from the newspapers of most circulation on the region: O Diário do Norte do Paraná and the Jornal do Povo were incorporated to the investigation in the meaning of realize how these newspapers grasped and represented these subjects, what image they transmitted to the public reader, considering that the press constitutes itself on a media maker of opinion.