In her study of poor mothers in northeast Brazil,Nancy Scheper-Hughes found that women were relieved when all of their children had died.

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This statement is false. In her study, Nancy Scheper-Hughes found that while some mothers may have expressed "a sense of limited relief" when a severely ill or suffering child died, the overwhelming majority of mothers love and grieve for their children, even in the face of extreme poverty and difficult living conditions.

In Her Study of Poor Mothers in Northeast Brazil,Nancy Scheper-Hughes