Abstract:
This is a qualitative research on family generational transmission of four adolescents who committed sexual violence against children. The text focuses on the adolescent in a perspective of interdependence of the adults responsible for their education and survival, as it is known that adolescents who have committed sexual offense present major conflicts in their family relationships. The objective was to deepen the knowledge about this little known reality in our country and to make a connection with the repetition of patterns of violence in the family life of these adolescents, through the study of family dynamics. The instrument used was the genogram, built in interviews with each family. The results point to family relations that reproduce poverty conditions of affective attachment, neglect and mistreatment, absent parents and authoritarian mothers. The discussion focuses on the process of generational transmission in the sense of committing various forms of violence that hinder the minimum conditions of emotional development of its members. As a result, these adolescents end up in violent relationships, even in their initial sexual experiments, that reproduce a pattern present in the various generations. The limitations of the study refer to difficulties in retrieving facts about family histories because, in addition to valuing this information little, families complain about the suffering that the narrative brings to everyone. It is concluded that a proposal of intervention with adolescents who commit sexual offense cannot dispense the presence of the family as protagonist.
Keywords:
Sexual abuse; Adolescent sexual offender; Generational transmission; Genogram
