Teenagers Want to be Mothers... But...

based on grounded theory, this study describes the experience with pregnancy in a group of teenagers and proposes a hypothesis on that experience. the data was collected through in-depth interviews with 30 pregnant teenagers. seven categories were drawn from the analysis: unexpected pregnancy, accepting pregnancy, experimenting with ways to look after yourself, suffering loss due to pregnancy, blaming yourself for the pregnancy, resisting abortion and rebuilding support networks. to construct a central category and, ultimately, to arrive at the assumption that teenage girls "want to become pregnant, but not so soon." accordingly, the concept of ambivalence is used as the thread to demonstrate how this sequence of actions/interactions evolves in response to the pregnancy experience and how they align themselves pursuant to the conditions and changes in their ambivalent context. the conclusion is that pregnant teens leave contraception up to the male. however, when becoming pregnant, they assign no blame or responsibility to their sexual partner and even excuse him. associate care or protection with changes in their social behavior and the physical changes are not significant. 21% of the teenagers in the study are in their second pregnancy. this is an indicator of dramatic proportions for the well-being of these young women and their unborn children. the parent-adolescent relationship is reinforced during the pregnancy. however, when the mothers of these teenagers learned their daughters were sexually active, they ignore it. urgently calls for innovative strategies to provide individualized and contextualized care are made.