In Latin America, since 1980, teenage pregnancy has been considered a social and public health problem. The institutional, adult-centered, specialized and modernizing discourse has categorized this phenomenon as an indicator of underdevelopment, as a failed act in the life project of adolescents, ignoring the senses that motherhood has in its own experience. This research compares the life project of three generations of women who have been teenage mothers between the 1980s, 2000s and 2010, contrasting public discourse and social experience, through 40 semi-structured interviews. The intersection between biography and history will be the way for an approach to the complex articulation between adolescent motherhood and reflexivity in contexts of poverty and marginality.
Keywords:
Teenage motherhood, Life project, Intersectionality, Social experience, urban marginality
Mesías Rodríguez, V. (2021). Adolescent maternity and life project. An intergenerational study from the urban margins. Revista Punto Género, (14), pp. 25– 48. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2020.60863
