Commentary on Part III-B: The Illusion of Child Protection in Brazilian Reality: Challenges for Psychology

The need of the World transformation—this vast world in Drummond’s¹ words—is what mobilizes the research. Maybe it is what mobilizes all your life. Beyond this desire important questions became consistent and prior. Thinking of a society project without social classes, without exclusion, exploitation, violence, and oppression has been a challenge for those who want, through a Marxist analysis of the objective reality, to delineate a better future, especially concerning the protection of people who develop themselves in a certain bad circumstance, possible to be modified.

The question presented here—protecting children’s rights—assumes importance because only by attending their fundamental needs is it possible for children to have a healthy life in all its dimensions. With a realistic and critical analysis of the life conditions from the majority of the excluded Brazilians and apart from their fundamental rights (dwelling, health, and education) it is possible to affirm that the children’s right to protection exists only in the paper of Law and not in concrete daily life.