Family educational context of children witnesses of intrafamily violence, Hospital de Clínicas, year 2020

Abstract

This study was conducted within the framework of the agreement between CONACYT and the Faculty of Social Sciences of the National University of Asunción, in conjunction with the Hospital de Clínicas. It sought to characterize the family educational context of a group of children who witnessed intrafamily violence at the Hospital de Clínicas in 2020. It started from a qualitative, descriptive and cross-sectional approach. The technique used for data collection was in-depth virtual interviews, conducted with women victims of domestic violence. This modality was chosen according to the health protocols of the current context of the pandemic. The results showed that there is an environment where violence is reproduced, also showing that mothers had a history of violence in childhood, which is reproduced in their sons and daughters. Although dialogue was considered the best education mechanism, they did not deny having used some type of physical and psychological punishment as a discipline mechanism. Among those punishments used were practices of patriarchal culture of subjugation to women, the naturalization of the cultural scheme where men have social privileges.