Child abandonment in state institutions

This book is the result of a paper defended on 10 December (World Human Rights Day), 2014, at the Institute of Psychology of the University of Sao Paulo, by the Social and Work Psychology Programme. It began in 2010 with a story published by Folha de Sao Paulo about a girl who had been forgotten in a psychiatric institution for more than four years. Besides her, other children live in similar situations across the country. These are children who have been forgotten by their families and institutions. Without adequate training and care, they are exposed to various situations of abuse and violence of all kinds. This background and experience is conducive to sexual and economic exploitation, extreme marginalisation on the streets and in psychiatric institutions, as well as constant visits to Casa Foundations. In this sense, a discourse that legitimises exclusion is constructed in response to the complete lack of reflection on trivialised decisions that operate without regard for the human subject.