Teenage pregnancy and subalternity: A culturally constructed vulnerability

Abstract

One of the main causes of death in adolescents in Latin America according to WHO (2018) is teenage pregnancy and is related to conditions of poverty and precariousness. During 2020, there were 373,661 births to adolescent women in Mexico, which continues to place the country in first place among OECD countries in early pregnancy. The repercussions are multiple in emotional and physical health, in addition to altering women's context and lived experience, building new and diverse vulnerabilities that are related to the gender condition and hegemonic social representations. Qualitative results are presented for two contexts, urban and coastal, where young women live in precarious conditions and a certain degree of abandonment, pointing to the need to develop action and education strategies that have an impact on the prevention of early pregnancies.

Editor's note volume 6, issue 2

“…In this article, the authors explore the repercussions of early pregnancy in Latin America. According to the World Health Organization, teenage pregnancy is one of the main causes of death in adolescents in Latin America; during 2020, Mexico continued to remain in first place in early pregnancy among the countries involved in the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD) (De Fátima Flores‐Palacios & Gabriela García‐Alcaraz, 2023).…”