Mães Que Perderam Filhos Adultos: Um Grupo Focal

Abstract

Death, although being part of human development, in its last stage, it is still not so debated in social circles, being associated to pain and suffering, because it characterizes the breaking of affective bonds, besides making us remember of our own finitude. When a mother loses her son, she faces a lacerating pain, as if one part of her has died together with her son, it lacks words to define such pain. The present is a qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and field research. The data collection was conducted through a focal group with four mothers who lost their children during adult stage, who have passed away at least five years ago, women who reside in a municipality in the northeast of Rio Grande do Sul state. The analysis and interpretation of data was carried out with content analysis. The relevance of this study resides in the possibility of producing reflections about maternal mourning allowing planning of actions which involve the mourners, family and community promoting health, resignification of feelings and completeness of the individual.

Criminal Violence, Political Violence, and the Politics of Line-Drawing in Latin America

“…In this sense, a crucial aspect of the legal evolution described above, which is reflected in the actual military deployments under GLO decrees, is the indeterminacy of the relevant laws as to when exactly -and where, and for how long -can these military troops be called to "guarantee law and order". There is no clear threshold for the identification of "insufficient" police forces or "exhausted" public security means (SAMSET, 2014). Relatedly, there is no definition of the end state -when can public order be said to be reestablished?…”

“…Ivan Valente of the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL) claimed that the term was "inappropriate". In response, the Minister of Defense Celso Amorim reassured him, saying that a revised version of the manual was already going to be released without the term (SAMSET, 2014). At the second edition, released later in 2014, the term had been replaced with the seemingly vaguer term "public order disturbance agent" (Agente de Perturbação da Ordem Pública, or APOPs), defined as a person or group whose actions immediately compromise the preservation of public order or threatens the safety of people or property (BRAZIL.…”