Abstract
The experience of helplessness or abandonment during pregnancy affects the emotional state of women, hindering their disposition in taking care of themselves and their baby. The aim of this study was to understand the emotional experience arising from intra-family violence experienced by institutionally sheltered adolescent mothers and pregnant adolescents. This study is exploratory, descriptive, clinical and qualitive. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a psychologist from the institution and with six adolescents in the institution: one pregnant girl and five mothers. The data showed that helplessness was experienced by participants both during their pregnancy and throughout their lives. The institution was found to be the only place of protection, care and support for adolescents in the puerperal pregnancy period. The adolescents' mothers had also experienced abandonment by either their family members or their partners and the adolescents themselves repeated this abandonment with their own children. This study concludes that violence has consequences for the lives of adolescents, causing immense suffering and a transgenerational repetition of violence, demanding greater prevention and intervention.
Highlights
The aim of this study was to understand the emotional experience arising from intra-family violence experienced by institutionally sheltered adolescent mothers and pregnant adolescents
It has been noted that there is a significant number of pregnant adolescents in the world, with 7.3 million young people under the age of 18 giving birth
The greatest concentration of pregnant adolescents can be found in the classes that are economically low[3] and or amongst those that have lived through or are living through intra-family violence
Summary
It has been noted that there is a significant number of pregnant adolescents in the world, with 7.3 million young people under the age of 18 giving birth. Considering intra-family violence as “Every act and/or omission practiced by the parents or the guardian in relation the child and/or adolescent that - is able to cause pain or damage to the physical, sexual and/or psychological state of the victim - meaning, on the one hand, a transgression of power/ obligation for protection from the adult and on the other side a “objectification” of one’s infancy.” This means the denial of the right that the child or the adolescent has to be treated as a subject and person in a peculiar condition in their development”[5]. In the face of the exposure, this study had the objective of understanding the emotional experience stemming from intra-family violence that teenage mothers and teenage pregnant girls in intuitional care have lived
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