Os filhos da prostituição: desvendando a relação mãe-prostituta, filho e sociedade

The present dissertation has as general purpose to investigate whether and how a mother’s profession, she being a prostitute, affects the child’s life. Thus, as specific objectives we have: to comprehend how the family of these children are constituted, analyze their relationship with their mother and investigate the mother’s profession reflects on life and choices of participating subjects. To achieve the proposed objectives, open interviews with mothers and children were held, through which we rescued the participant’s life history. Also we proceeded to participating observations, realized with direct and prolonged contact with the participating subjects in their daily life, making use of the field diary, which allowed to register the collected information. With regard to the results, it appears as a central point the influence of the mother’s activities with respect to the socioeconomic aspects enjoyed by the children. As well as the concealment of what the mothers perform as a profession and the limitation of coexistence between mother and child, caused by the dynamics of prostitution. In addition, the mother of relationships generate conflicts with their children. It was also noticed, in some discourses of the children, that existing prejudice against prostitution and a certain ignorance of the mother’s activity. Finally, as highlighted by the addressed literature and the result of the present study, the stigma and the prejudgment existing in the society about the prostitute and her son are revealed in actions, situations and intolerant discourse in the lives of the children, which lead them to hide the mother's profession in the environment where they live. ; A presente dissertação tem por objetivo geral investigar se e como a profissão da mãe, sendo ela prostituta, incide na vida do filho. Diante disso, elencou-se como objetivos específicos: compreender como se constitui a família na qual os filhos estão inseridos, analisar a relação entre mãe e filhos e investigar os reflexos da profissão da mãe na vida ...