A familia contemporanea brasileira : mães chefes de familia de camada media

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

The purpose of this research work is to analyze the Brazilian contemporanean family, especially the section of the population formed by middle class women who are responsible to provide for their families. The starting point of this study is the fact that the contemporanean family has been considerably changing and that new family arrangements are being formed due to this process. The goal of this study is to achieve, although briefly, a comprehension of the formation of supportive social nets for those families raised by separated/divorced women, which present mother-children relationship only. It is our understanding that after the couple separation, those families have necessarily to be restructured. This research work is present in 5 chapters: the first 2 deal with theoretical aspects of the study and the 3 remaining chapters focus on method and research data. From the results obtained, we were able to verify that the external family (the mother and father?s relatives) functions as a supporting social net, playing the role of emotional, social and financial helper. This study highlights the importance of acquiring further information on the section of the population of, middle class family raising women and their families so that support and care policies toward them may be put into pratice

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family gender middle class family raising women mulheres chefes de familia classe media social nets genero estrutura social familia

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