This study is based on the life stories of women/mothers who are addicted to crack and had their babies delivered at a public hospital. These women, having been assessed by professionals, were considered unfit to raise their children on their own. As a protective measure for the child in risky situation, these cases were mediated by the judiciary. In some cases, the family power was suspended. The motivation for this project was the attempt to identify the life-stories I came across in working behind each one of these women. These is a scenario of multiple violations of civil rights through which they endured long before the child is born. These stories are also drenched in violence and poverty. Drug addiction is presented as one on the agents of family break up and women abuse and, as such, leads up to the impossibility of motherhood. As many of them testify, drug use begins as a consequence of curiosity. Later on it becomes a necessity and addiction. While interviewing three of these women/mothers, we could notice the absence of policies and services capable of preventing this state of vulnerability. All that was confirmed by the professionals involved in this study. Therefore, we tried to find in their testimonies the presence or absence of care they received carethrough public policies domain. Measures that couldassure quality of life for all those who are indeed by law considered citizens by legal instrument, as it is stated in the Federal Constitution of 1988. In this project, we included an analysis of the Brazilian social protection system combined with existing drug policies. Our goal is to try to understand the breakdown in their rights to a life worth-living that consequently find those individuals guilty of their own misfortune. We also discussed the role of a women historically, in a time when they are expected to care and protect. However, whether it is caused by desire, lack of care or protection, the women we refer to in this study cannot perform those duties that are socially designed for her.