Percepção de mães sobre vínculo e separação de seus bebês em uma unidade prisional feminina na cidade de São Paulo-SP

• Autor(a) principal: Torquato, Aneliza de Lima [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/110919
• topic: Maternidade; Prisão; Mãe e filhos; Motherhood

Brazilian female prision population increasead by almost 100% in six years. However, it was noted that is a lack of research regarding to imprisonment of women, especially those which are with their babies in prison. The law 11.942/2009, article 89 ensures the mother to stay with your child for at least six months, depending on the structural conditions of imprisonment. Thus, the stay of babies with their mothers in prison is temporary. This research goal was to understand the process of establishing of mother-infant link and the process of separation from the maternal point of view, under a women's prison unit. Five mothers participated of this research. They were between 21 and 34 years old and are arrested for the firs time. To collect data for the research, was utilized a form of socio-demographic data and was applied and individualized semi-structured interview which was recorded and full transcribed in order to evaluate two moments: first, when the mothers were with their babies in prison, and second, when only one mother o the groupo remained in the prison after the serparation of her child. The contents of the interviews passed through discourse analysis. It was found that the experience of motherhood in prison is permeated by feelings of loss, fears, guilt, loneliness, insecurity and suffering due to the possibility of separation of the child. It was shown that in this period, approximately six months of living with their babies, the relationship becomes too intense, since the routine is pretty much the same, where the greatest obligation is to care of the child. The participants were very caring and loving with the children able to pursue motherhood. However, all of them expressed feeling of guilt for keeping their children in that environment and the negligence of institution with their babies, in relation to medical care, food and access to material resources for child care. The study points to the needs for greater physical...