Mothers and children, bodies and words, link birth and nation that are irrevocably related. Anchored in specific times and spaces, the social and literary narratives that feature them as protagonists weave the possible relationships that each historical age establishes among biopolitics, motherhood, and filiation. Biopolitical notions of birth, life, and death fight over, and settle, the community's origin and destiny. A child's death often interrupts narrative plots and becomes a focal point to exacerbate the meanings that those plots join or scatter around. In the childhood narratives, autobiographical stories, and educational novels of Latin American literature one can find a scene portraying a child's sickness or death. Children are the main victims in any crisis - wars, destitution, natural disasters. Since the 1970s, women's and feminist movements have worked on and influenced the social, legal, political, human rights, and academic spheres through practices, actions, discourses, and narratives.