O programa de erradicação do trabalho infantil (PETI) e o bolsa família como medidas de proteção as crianças e adolescentes contra a exploração do trabalho infatil.

Abstract

Child labor in Brazil, is an old and disturbing reality. Still a developing country, there is still quite present social problems arising from social inequality and other economic problems. There are several routes to be followed until it reaches the idealized stage. However, most of these paths through the investment and attention should be given to the children of the country. This is because the more they have the same opportunities, the closer will be the Brazil of being the developed country that craves. One of the points that deserve attention, no doubt is the need to remove children from labor exploitation. In response to this, the Brazilian government establishing social programs titled Eradication of Child Labor, PETI and Bolsa Familia, which was later integrated to that. These government programs have decreased the main scope of child labor, and work through financial incentives to poor families, program participants, requiring, however, the frequency of their children in school. The present work has the purpose to evaluate all historical, evolutionary, legislative, social aspects related to the exploitation of children and youth work. Setting admission limits, and under what conditions the exploitation of this type of labor is defined as a crime. And finally, concluding that the Bolsa Família and Eradication of Child Labor, PETI, yes programs contribute to the reduction of child labor, injecting income families with alarming poverty level, requiring the same, the frequency of their children in school, helping to reverse the worrying numbers of child labor in Brazil. The methodology used is the method of deductive approach, starting from a general to specific.