Abstract

SOEJIMA, Carolina Santos  and  WEBER, Lidia Natalia Dobrianskyj. What leads a mother to abandon her child?. Aletheia [online]. 2008, n.28, pp. 174-187. ISSN 1413-0394.

In all times always existed mothers that couldn’t or didn’t want to raise their children. This research aimed to evaluate the quality of family interaction to which these mothers have been submited during their childhood, and its influence on their future motherhood. The abandoning mothers were intentionally sampled and mothers without a history of abandonment were indicated as controls by the group of abandoning mothers, with 21 mothers in each group. Participants completed the Scale of Family Interaction’s Quality, and the differences and similarities between groups were established through statistical analysis. The main results are that abandoning mothers were abandoned daughters and had a childhood history of neglectful parenting and maltreatment.

Keywords : Abandonment; Mothers; Children.

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