The decree number 181 of 1890. Poor single mothers and childhood work exploitation

Abstract

The exploitation of the work of under aged, of the ingenuous and unprotected orphans, children of former slaves, released and poor single women was widely spreaded between many farmers and elite members in the slavery end. When being tutored, such minors were directed to the housework or the work in farming. This article searches to demonstrate that decree number 181 of January of 1890, which searches the civil marriage regulation, it also makes between the magistrates much confusion relating the fatherhood of the single mothers. Such legislation turned harder the fight of many poor single women when fighting in justice to have its children in return.