O perfil das crianças institucionalizadas no Estado do Espírito Santo e a atuação do Ministério Público estadual

Abstract

It seeks to know and understand the work of the Public Ministry of Espírito Santo in cases of late adoption, as well as the evolution, in history, of childhood conception and the vulnerability of children to institutionalized adolescents. The conception of childhood has changed a lot over the centuries. In the past, we had the idea that childhood was only a period of life in transition, there was no real concern for children. This is very noticeable when analyzing the arts. medieval, where children were not portrayed, given that they were not given due importance, and their rights were scarce. Over the centuries, there was a discovery of childhood, around the 13th century, and, from that point on, children and adolescents began to be subject to more and more rights and concerns. With regard to Brazil, it was only with the 1988 Constitution of the Republic that children and adolescents began to be effectively recognized as subjects of rights. With the advent of the Child and Adolescent Statute - ECRIAD, in 1990, these rights were further consolidated. With regard to institutionalized children, there is some concern, as the principle of the best interest of the child must be respected, and the situation in shelters, especially for minors who spend a lot of their lives in them, goes against this principle. In fact, the maintenance of the minor's bond with his natural family is prioritized, with adoption as a subsidiary solution. However, this priority can often be costly for the child. This is because, the delay in destitution of family power, if delayed, can generate terrible consequences, such as that of children growing up in shelters, in conditions of vulnerability, whether material or emotional, and without having a family. this is because most adopters in Brazil do not want big children, the preference is for babies, and the longer the removal of family power is postponed, the more difficult it is for the youngest to be inserted into a foster family. When analyzing the situation data of the profile of children desired by the adopters and the profile of children available for adoption, in Espírito Santo, in the period of 2017, according to data offered by the State Judicial Commission of Adoption - CEJA, this is even more clear and evident . Thus, the objective of the present work is to analyze the situation of institutionalized children, as well as the data related to this issue in Espírito Santo, in order to understand how the Public Ministry of Espírito Santo acts in face of the problem of late adoption. In this bias, the method used for this work is the deductive one.