"é melhor pra você!": normatiza？？o social da infancia e da família no Brasil

this report analyzes specialist speeches/practices which have acted as mechanisms for brazilian children/families since the end of the 19 century. a genealogic approach was used to carry out a study on the contents published in the brazilian mental hygiene archives. it also aims at enhancing the experts of the knowledge which make unnatural practices/opinions considered as universal truths. this analysis has identified political, ideological and moral bases supporting contemporaneous speeches/practices disguised as neutrality, which are often increased by "assistentialism" and/or militancy. it shows the need for revaluation of political and social consequences in the graduation and in the psychology practice.