SHARENTING: a responsabilidade parental na exposição de crianças nas redes sociais

Abstract

In the context of social media, it has been increased profiles that shares the daily live’s people, it points the children and teenager’s vulnerability. Because of freedom of expression, the pictures and video published by children’s parents and legal guardians implies violating basic rights listed on Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente, the consequences are privacy and intimacy damages protected by Código Civil. So, the question is, as far as the parents or legal guardians must be made responsabible because of practicing sharenting? For this, the approach methodology used is deductive hypothetical, there are two hypotheses to be resolved: if parents or legal guardians can be civilly responsible towards to undue publications on social media that compromise the children’s digital security or if parents on proper exercise of family power don’t commit any damage to their children. The procedure methodology used is monographic that consists of investigating a social phenomenon and analyzing it in the social relationships. The goal is to investigate the sharenting phenomenon of violating children’s rights. The specifics goals are: analyzes the sharenting phenomenon on the context of sharenting in Brazil, verify the parent and legal guardian’s behavior on social media in order to comprehend how they can be responsible civilly and how it violates the rights on Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente and investigate the emblematic cases of sharenting in Brazil in face of civil responsibility of parents and digital platforms researching through the published articles by others authors about judicial cases decided by brazilian and foreigner tribunal about exposing children on social media. The researching techniques are documental and bibliographic. The bibliographic concerns scientific articles on the civil responsibility of parents about sharenting already published by other authors that will be analyzed from a new perspective. The documental refers to Brazilian Civil Law, The Child and Adolescent Statute, newspaper publications and statistical sources. Therefore, there is a possibility to responsibilize parents when it comes to exposing their children on social media.