PREGNANCY / MATERNITY AND ADOLESCENTS IN SOCIAL AND/ PERSONAL RISK SITUATION: SOME CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THIS THEME

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The pregnancy and maternity in the adolescence is an widely boarded subject in literature, however is possible to observe the contradictions in the speeches that characterize this experience as a problem of public health and stories of the adolescents on the daily one while mothers. This article, characterized as a bibliographical study objectified to argue the different perceptions on the maternity in the adolescence, understood as phenomenon socially consisting. Studies that characterize the pregnancy/maternity as being of risk for the personal and social development of the adolescent and its son, had been opposed to the research that brings the perspective of the adolescent on this experience. It was possible to evidence that the maternity can be seen of positive form for the adolescent, and especially, for those in situation of social and personal risk, it can represent a rich period of changes as for daily practical the social recognition and to its, besides being an especially propitious moment for the action development health effective.  KEYWORDS: Maternity; Pregnancy; Adolescence.