The vulnerability of the family: reflections about human condition.

Jacqueline Flores De Oliveira,Adriane Maria Netto De Oliveira,Luciano Garcia Lourenção,Edison Luiz Devos Barlem

doi:10.1590/0034-7167-2019-0412

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https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2019-0412

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Abstract

to reflect about the vulnerability of the family, using the book The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt as reference, to better understand how this institution has been structured in today's world. the rupture of assistance relations among family members represents a situation of vulnerability that weakens the family institution, leading to the loss of the assertiveness in the society. Support for the development of human capabilities in families and in the territory provides the benefit of strengthening them to face of vulnerabilities. the vulnerability of the family presents itself as a historic milestone, condition on which the family institution was built and organized as a public and private property, putting in evidence the importance to develop a more holistic and integrate care to the people, based on health public policies and social assistance.

Highlights

The family obligation reflects a sense of duty to support, respect and assist family members
The implicit and explicit expectations about these obligations generally serve as guidelines for the way in which relationships are established in the family environment(1)
Families policies had a higher visibility in the last decade due to big contemporaneous transformations related to the forms of work organization and family constitution, social, economic transitions, and urbanization, that directly reflected in the way how the relationships happen in the family environment presently(2)

Summary

INTRODUCTION

The family obligation reflects a sense of duty to support, respect and assist family members. Many world advances related to the policies of social protection, these public policies, in Brazil, in family environment, still are turned to social insurance and based on the role of the men being the breadwinner and the woman as the caregiver, reproducing the“traditional family”model of the patriarchal system, which generates several ways of vulnerability inside the family environment. This archaic model of organization has threatened the structure and the quality of familiar relationships, contributing to disagreements, abandonment, violence and threats. In the light of the foregoing, this theoretical essay aims to reflect on the vulnerability of the family, using as reference the book Human Condition, by Hannah Arendt, to better understand the way in which this institution has been structured in the today’s world

Conceptualizing vulnerability

Family as public and private institution

The vulnerability of the family in the light of human condition

Findings

FINAL CONSIDERATIONS