Violencia intrafamiliar en el marco de la emergencia sanitaria por el COVID-19

Abstract

The confinement caused in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic has produced changes in family, labor and social dynamics in general. Within families, who have been forced to deploy new modes of coexistence, new roles and challenges, new modes of violence have also been presented, in homes where they did not exist before the health crisis; or its increase in those families in which they had previously presented violent forms of relationship. These situations do not only occur in couple relationships, but have diversified, there is also violence against children and adolescents, towards the elderly and, in general, establishing themselves in a conjugated way around already established power relations in each family. From a psychosocial perspective, this increase in violence constitutes a new challenge, so this article seeks to analyze some of its implications in the current context.