Os vínculos afetivos e familiares dos homens de rua

Abstract

The present paper is an account of a research perfonned among street people (Homeless), in order to produce a reflec­tion about their existing emotional and familiar ties. Aplying group dynamics, a survey of the many places where they usually stay during the most part of day time, state­ments, inquiries and an analysis of a number of letters interchanged between the Homeless and their families, wew used to gather data. In order to build a street people profile a process of cQJltinued approaches was observed as: the different theories, a net­ work of connexions that grant their survivarlce under such peculiar situation and above all an analysis ofthe mutations created by thát particular way of life. An analysis of a number offamily letters, statements and inquiries taken among a street peoplehousehold provided a way to deduce the meaning of theit emotional and family ties. Under pretense of fmal considerations, we indicate and recognise a need to in­clude such familiar ties as an important determinating data for our professional action