La influencia del abandono familiar en el comportamiento violento ejercido por los niños y niñas durante su vivencia dentro de una casa hogar para infantes victimas de negligencia familiar

Abstract

The aim of the following research is to demonstrate how family abandonment influences the violent behavior exercised by children during their experience in a family home which helps infants who are victims of family neglect. With the goal of understanding each story of children and contributing to the proper management of these violent behaviors. In such a manner that the children grow in an environment where respect and inclusion prevail. This work is characterized by being a qualitative investigation, carried out with a sample of 7 boys and girls residing in a family home. The main technique was the semi-structured interview for children. The ‘HTP Test’ and the ‘Corman Family Test’ were the instruments of the investigation. Both of them project through drawings the internal conflicts that children have and that generate aggressive behaviors. Repetitive factors were taken into account in all the boys and girls evaluated. As results of the applied tests, the obtained factors were: isolation, need for support, anxiety, tension and aggressiveness. From which it is concluded that children who are admitted due to family neglect, mistreatment, abuse and abandonment, lead them to act violently with their colleagues, tutors and authorities.