According to Scheper-Hughes in "Mother's Love: Death WithouWeeping," poor women in northeasBrazil would sacrifice in every way possible to keep their children alive.

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Scheper-Hughes observed that due to extreme poverty and high infant mortality rates, some mothers in northeast Brazil developed emotional detachment as a coping mechanism, which sometimes led to a lack of intervention in cases of infant illness.

According to Scheper-Hughes in "Mother's Love: Death WithouWeeping," Poor Women