The Bolsa Família Program has become one of the main policies to combat poverty in Latin America, and its ownership provided preferentially to women has opened several academic debates on female autonomy. At the intersection of class, race, gender and territory, the present work aims to analyze the narratives constructed by the women interviewed here about motherhood and stigma and the experiences of being beneficiaries of this social policy and living in the favela of Complexo do Alemão, in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro. In this sense, the work observed the dispute over the concept of beneficiary and how the reproduction of the stigma represents a resistance created by them to moral controls and a self-worth of their maternal activities. In addition, the work also addressed the reality of women in a territory marked by violence and military operations and the relationship between motherhood and the social context of the favela.