“Tava morta e revivi”: significado de maternidade para adolescentes com experiência de vida nas ruas
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2008-02
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The discovery of sexuality by adolescent girls
living in the streets generally involves lack of
knowledge about their own bodies, often resulting
in risk behaviors for sexually transmitted
diseases and pregnancy. This study aimed to
identify the meanings ascribed to motherhood
by teenage girls with a history of living in the
streets and who chose to assume the care for
their children, off the streets. Based on a qualitative
methodology, data were collected from
the adolescent mothers at a nongovernmental
shelter and analyzed according to the content
analysis modality. The results were discussed
using the category “new life: mother & child”,
showing that the adolescents ascribed a positive
meaning to motherhood, with the child seen as
both a “savior” from the mother’s certain death
on the streets and a repository for the mother’s
expectations for a better future. The article concludes
by analyzing motherhood as an opportunity
for establishing new ways of being in (and
relating to) the world, with the construction of
this motherhood process as a potentially fertile
ground for intervention by health professionals.
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Menores de rua, Gravidez na adolescência, Acontecimentos que mudam a vida, Homeless youth, Pregnancy in adolescence, Life change events
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GONTIJO, Daniela Tavares; MEDEIROS, Marcelo. “Tava morta e revivi”: significado de maternidade para adolescentes com experiência de vida nas ruas. Cadernos de Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, v. 24, n. 2, p. 469-472, fev. 2008.