This paper is a reflection on my experience within the Judiciary since 2005 with children and adolescents subjected to various forms of family violence, starting from questions about the practice and ways of dealing with the everyday demands for care, prevention, and resolution of cases involving neglect, abuse, sexual abuse and other forms of violence. Some authors of psychoanalysis as Freud, Ferenczi and Winnicott, as well as contemporary researchers in the field of family violence and its impact on the lives of children and adolescents in the city of Rio de Janeiro provided the basis for theoretical approach. With regard to the practice, some fragments taken from cases are presented in order to illustrate what we understand to be a form of psychological work in the field of the Judiciary, trying to reflect on ways of relationship between parents / guardians and their children, as well as pointing to the possibility of developing new ways of experiencing these relations .