SOARES, Isabel    JONGENELEN, Inês. Maternidade na adolescência: Contributos para uma abordagem desenvolvimental. []. , 16, 3, pp.373-384. ISSN 0870-8231.

The authors review the empirical research on adolescent parenting, traditionally focused on the comparison between adolescent and adult mothers. Some limitations of this kind of research are analysed, pointing out the need to focus on the intra-goup variability of adolescent mothers and the absence of a conceptual framework integrating the empirical results. Within this framework, the contributions and conceptual implications of the developmental perspective to the understanding of the intra-group variability are presented. Afterwards, the need to conceive adolescent motherhood as a social interaction process is discussed, and an adaptation of the Schellenbach, Whitman and Borkowski (1992) model of adolescent parenting is presented. Finally, the role of social support in adolescent motherhood is analysed in its different aspects.

: Motherhood; adolescence; developmental perspective; social support.

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