Do mito do amor materno a desigualdade de gênero: as mulheres que entregam os filhos para adoção

Abstract

The current Course Work consists in a qualitative research of exploratory character in which are analyzed social processes that lead women to give up their children to adoption, in order to contribute to the critic to the myth of maternal love and its many faces from gender inequality. Thereby, the following research problem was elaborated: which social situations of vulnerability implicate in giving a child to adoption? The conducted study has its principles based on the dialectical, historical and materialistic method, which has as categories the wholesome, historicity and contradiction, making use of documental research as a research technique. Data collection covers videos and reports that talk about lives of women who have given their children to adoption has as research source material presented by magazines, TV newscasts and seminars. The analysis technique of the data was based on a formulation of a documental analysis script on selected documents. The study shows how family relations, discrimination, poverty, the relation with the child’s father and the kind of insertion in the job market interfere on the women’s decision that give their children to adoption. The research also shows the importance of state intervention before the necessity of follow up of pregnant women in state of vulnerability, allowing means of coping to different social processes that affect them, such as violence and abandonment. In the same way it can also make feasible the access to social services in which professionals could provide support to women facing the suffering of the unexpected pregnancy when they don’t find support from both the family and the child’s father. In addition to that the attention from the State shows itself as being a fundamental element so that women are not discriminated based on the myth of maternal love where, due to the gender inequality reproduced by families and society, women are blamed for giving their children to adoption. It is made necessary the intensification of the debate over the myth of maternal love as well as gender inequality based on the analysis of relations and social processes needed to production and reproduction of the capitalist sociability.