Narrativas sobre el embarazo y la maternidad en mujeres adolescentes de sectores urbano marginales de Lima que acaban de dar a luz

This research explores the emerging themes in the narratives of teen mothers who have just given birth in a national maternity hospital. 20 transcriptions of support interventions carried out by four psychologists to 20 teen mothers were used. It was found that most teen mothers had personal stories marked by the real or psychological absence of both parents. These absences in many cases were compensated by an affective dependency of the future parents of the baby. Although the teens expected support from them, the future parents were in most of the cases in difficult emotional and financial situations. Forced sexual relationships and rapes were frequent in the adolescents of this study. Regarding the baby, once he or she was born, the baby represented for the teen mothers the possibility of reparation or repetition of their own history of abandonment depending on the social support they had. The maternity hospital tended to reproduce the critic attitude of the social context, blaming the teen mother for their pregnancy, as well as the abandoner role of many of the teens' families.