Um olhar sobre o cuidado em famílias monoparentais femininas de classes populares.

Abstract

The main theme of this paper is the comprehension of how children nursing is dealt with in female, single-parent households of working class people, taking as reference the social, cultural and historical aspects of those relationships. It is a qualitative study carried with five families who live in a peripheral neighborhood in the city of Pelotas, and it uses oral narratives as methodology of research, the first part being theme oral narratives and the second the methodology of life trajectory. The narratives and field observations were used as basis for data analysis, aiming to focus on similarities and approximations between the life trajectory of families and women who are head of the family, taking in consideration the centrality of the mother-son relationship, of the nursing which is done with the children, as well as the social and kinship networks accessed by those families. For this purpose, the main theoretical basis used was Anthropology, especially as regards to the comprehension of working class families. In addition, some definitions of nursing, female singleparent families, working class and vulnerability are presented in this paper.