Teenage maternity: life’s new meaning?

Abstract

Objective: To identify transformations arising from teen pregnancy from the perspective of young women.Methods: Study of qualitative and descriptive approach with 34 young women of low socio-economic strata that gave birth in the year 2010 as teenagers. The data have been collected through semistructured interviews with questions about life before and after maternity, explored through content analysis. Results:The life of the teenagers before pregnancy is heterogeneous in social, work and schooling aspects. After maternity, the freedom of being is re-confi gured, bringing losses related to the abandonment of studies, to the reduction in social life and to the stigma of teenage maternity; the gains from resignifi cation of lifestyle, the abandonment of illegal and criminal conduct, increased selfconfi dence the reduction of exposure to violence inside the family, accompanied by new responsibilities, from the reconciliation of study and work or the abandonment of one of these activities. Conclusion:Maternity generates a feeling of satisfaction brought about by the experience of being a mother, with a new social identity.

Experiences of pregnancy in adolescence of internally displaced women in Bogotá: an ethnographic approach

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Fatores psicossociais enfrentados por grávidas na fase final da adolescência

“…No que se refere ao perfil sociodemográfico das adolescentes grávidas participantes da presente investigação, resultados semelhantes foram identificados em outro trabalho ao investigar as transformações decorridas da gravidez de adolescentes. Tendo a média de idade apresentada de 19 anos, com média de escolaridade de oito anos e 77% das participantes não trabalhavam (13) . Em outro estudo, os resultados referentes a adolescentes grávidas retrataram que a maioria completou a escola primária, porém 80% não deram continuidade em sua fase de vida escolar.…”

Influência de variáveis socioeconômicas, demográficas e de comportamento sexual no abandono escolar de gestantes adolescentes

“…A gravidez na adolescência para jovens de classes econômicas desfavorecidas é vista como meio de adquirir autoconfiança, suprimir a solidão, oportunidade para abandonar condutas ilegais e criminosas e reduzir da violência intrafamiliar. Contudo, traz perdas relacionadas ao abandono dos estudos, privação da vida social e estigma da maternidade precoce (Zanchi, Kerber, Biondi, Silva, & Gonçalves, 2016).…”