FAMILY EMPOWERMENT AND ITS IMPACT ON CHILD LABOR IN GUAYAQUIL, SOUTH CENTER DURING 2022

Abstract

The research carried out was developed as a consequence of the intervention process carried out in families of children in child labor situations, in the city of Guayaquil, during the period 2022. By virtue of this, the main objective was structured to determine family empowerment and its impact. on the family co-responsibility of parents of working children and adolescents in Guayaquil, describing how it influences the protection of rights and the denaturalization of child labor. As indicated in the Children and Adolescents Code, the family has the co-responsibility of guaranteeing the rights of children; however, there are sociocultural contexts that hinder the applicability of this commitment. Consequently, this work analyzed one of the factors that make the progressive eradication of child labor impossible from the family sphere. The methodology implemented was qualitative in nature, with a narrative design, the interview technique was applied, thus achieving an internal systemic and global family analysis of families that share the same problem, where through the results it was possible to understand that the interviewees consider the Family participation as fundamental in the upbringing of working children and adolescents. In conclusion, it was possible to analyze the importance of family participation in the upbringing of children and adolescents to contribute to the restitution of rights, therefore, it is necessary to understand the reality of homes and family dynamics as a starting point for interventions, deployed in favor of this priority attention group.

KEYWORD: Child labor, family, empowerment, rights, vulnerability