The present study discusses the meaning of family bonding for sheltered children, victims of domestic violence. These children's hope of recovering the family ties is analyzed as a search for a psychosocial status. The sheltered children, who suffered a rupture in the primeval filiation and history of life, float among ephemeral bonding, without references of their past and without fixed and solid points for their establishment in the present to serve as a guide or new filiations. Such condition of unfilial behavior is focused as a tendency of the contemporary society in loosening bonding, moving psychosocial status and producing non-stable situations favoring a movable subjectivity where family ties is not a priority. As a conclusion, it is appointed a historical continuity of oppression of the childhood caused by the condition of transitional attachment in their lives, impeding the building of solid and long term ties in order to allow a sufficient stability and support to face life.
children; domestic violence; family ties