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Abstract
Child psychological maltreatment (CPM) was incorporated into the Quebec Youth Protection Act (YPA) in 2006. At that time, various civil-society actors were invited to present to Parliament their views on these legislative changes. The objective of this article is to document the social representations mobilized by the stakeholders in the parliamentary committee in relation to the inclusion of CPM in the Quebec YPA. After explaining our research objectives, questions, and methodology, we will discuss our results, in particular about the distinctive nature of children as a representational object. This specificity will be analyzed in order to better understand the type of communication it generates and the corresponding hegemonic representation of parents. Specifically, implications related to the representational dynamics identified are discussed in relation to our collective capacity (or incapacity) to debate sensitive issues such as child abuse.
Highlights
First adopted in 1977, the Quebec Youth Protection Act (YPA) addresses situations where the security or the development of a child is considered to be in danger and that potentially require the State’s intervention
Protection Act: (1) What were the different stances of the stakeholders on the incorporation of psychological maltreatment into the YPA? (2) What social representations of children and parents can we identify in their discourse? (3) How did these representations feed into the different positions?
The objective of this article was to explore the role of social representations in the discourse of different stakeholders during the public hearings that preceded the incorporation of child psychological maltreatment into the YPA
Summary
First adopted in 1977, the Quebec Youth Protection Act (YPA) addresses situations where the security or the development of a child is considered to be in danger and that potentially require the State’s intervention. Youth Protection Directors (YPD) in order to protect children; for instance, the power to remove a child from their home, control contact with the family of origin, enter a home for investigation without a warrant, and more. The principles on which the YPD intervention is based have not changed since 1977, but the grounds for compromise have been redefined, with the aim of making them more precise in order to better respect the exceptional nature of the law [3]. These grounds constitute the formal definition of child abuse in Quebec, and, in 2006, psychological maltreatment of a child was integrated into the law.
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