Université de Paris, PCPP, 92100, Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
Maison de Solenn, 97 bd de Port Royal, 75014, Paris, France.
Matern Child Health J. 2022 Feb;26(2):367-380. doi: 10.1007/s10995-021-03254-9. Epub 2021 Oct 7.
Many variables can influence the process of motherhood, including environmental precarity and personal adversity. One about which little is known is the impact of incarceration on women during or after pregnancy. In France, pregnant women or those with children up to 18 months old can be incarcerated with their child in specific units called nurseries. We sought to explore incarcerated women's experience of motherhood in prison environments and its potential consequences on the construction of their identity as mothers.
We conducted semi-structured interviews to collect the experience of the process of motherhood among 25 mothers and 5 pregnant women in 13 different prison nurseries in France and used interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore the data.
Four different themes emerged: prison conflates their status as inmates and as mothers; it limits their freedom as mothers; it disrupts their family structure; and motherhood may help distinguish them from other inmates.
Incarceration of pregnant women or young mothers in prison nurseries might disrupt the process involved in becoming mothers, causing their identities as prisoners to englobe their identities as mothers and resulting in inappropriate parenting support by prison staff. A professional specialized in peripartum issues should help each woman disentangle her identity as inmate and mother and enable her placement at the facility best adapted to her individual needs as a mother. In any case, if prison must continue to be possible, it must always be a last alternative for women with young children.
许多变量会影响到母亲的角色，包括环境不稳定和个人逆境。其中一个鲜为人知的变量是监禁对怀孕或产后妇女的影响。在法国，孕妇或 18 个月以下子女的母亲可以与子女一起被监禁在特定的单元中，这些单元被称为托儿所。我们试图探索监禁环境中妇女的母性体验及其对她们作为母亲的身份构建的潜在影响。
我们对法国 13 个不同监狱托儿所的 25 名母亲和 5 名孕妇进行了半结构化访谈，以收集她们的母性经历，并使用解释现象学分析方法对数据进行了探索。
出现了四个不同的主题：监狱将她们作为囚犯和母亲的身份混为一谈；限制了她们作为母亲的自由；扰乱了她们的家庭结构；母性可能有助于将她们与其他囚犯区分开来。
将孕妇或年轻母亲监禁在监狱托儿所可能会扰乱成为母亲的过程，导致她们作为囚犯的身份涵盖了作为母亲的身份，并且监狱工作人员对其提供的育儿支持不恰当。一名专门从事围产期问题的专业人员应该帮助每位女性理清其作为囚犯和母亲的身份，并为她提供最适合其作为母亲的个人需求的安置场所。无论如何，如果必须继续监禁，那么这对有年幼子女的妇女来说必须是最后的选择。
