Estructura familiar de niños maltratados

Abstract

Child abuse refers to acts or omissions that cause negative consequences on children and violate their physical, psychological or sexual integrity; usually the manifestations are evident with neglect, physical or psychological injury caused by a relative or a caregiver of the child. This research is quantitative, descriptive and transversal; the overall objective was to identify the family structure of abused children cases that were made known to the Cantonal Rights Protection Board of the Azogues Canton during 2015 and from January to May of 2016. The applied instruments were: FACE III based on the Olson Circumplex Model (1989) and the genogram. The results establish that most of the families are disassociation-structured and have a family structure characterized by the presence of the mother figure in the hierarchy of the household; outstanding limits of marital and parent-child systems are rigid; partnerships are established between siblings and coalitions are presented in a high percentage between mother and stepfather against the child. The most common conflicts are in the parent-child system between the mother and the child.