O significado da gravidez para as adolescentes de comunidade de baixa renda

Abstract

Adolescent pregnancy is a reality that does not stop growing in Brazil and worldwide. Early pregnancy has effects biological, psychological, familial, social, economic and cultural. The main objective of this study was to identify what is the meaning of pregnancy for adolescents low-income community by performing a literature review of scientific and national level. For this, we selected articles indexed from 2000 to 2009 that represented very well the theme. For many authors, teenage pregnancy is a psychosocial risk that can be recognized as a problem for young people who start a family unintended. But on the other hand, many teenagers planned their pregnancy and feel done with it. Being a mother to them, is a project of life and no matter what age, what is at stake are the dreams made from the pregnancy, the stability with the father of independence and the achievements arising from the pregnancy. Pregnancy has many meanings as to become pregnant to avoid losing the boyfriend to leave the parental home and avoid the unpleasant family atmosphere, to assert their femininity through fertility, to find child care in a purpose for your life, or to assuage the loneliness in his son. In other words, is the attempt to oppose a tortuous life, to fill an inner void.