Citation

Bubadué RM, Cabral IE, Carnevale F, Asensi FD. Rev. Gaucha Enferm. 2017; 37(4): e58018.

Vernacular Title

Análise normativa sobre a voz da criança na legislação brasileira de proteção à infância.

Affiliation

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Instituto de Medicina Social, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande e do Sul)

DOI

10.1590/1983-1447.2016.04.58018

PMID

28198942

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: to identify and analyse children's voices in healthcare decision making in the discourse of Brazil's child protection laws.

METHOD: Documentary normative analysis of Brazil's child protection legislation (1988-2012) based on the content analysis of nine texts, conducted in 2015.

RESULTS: The legislation acknowledges and stresses the voice of children in the decision-making process in research and healthcare. Any recognition of the right to dignity, liberty, information, and protection depends on what the adult decision-maker (with parental authority) believes is the child's capacity for discernment and whether the situation will cause self-harm.

CONCLUSIONS: the normative child protection discourse grants children a voice, although with restrictions and under the authority of the adult with parental authority.

Language: en