Abstract

This article gathers the principal conclusions of a study on the educational path of teen women who face the challenge of being mothers. This qualitative study aims to understand the experience of adolescent mothers for identifying dimensions that are associated to the retirement and the school retention, also to describe the demands of support to make compatible both roles (student and mother). On the basis of ten depth interviews realized to adolescent mothers enrolled in public school establishments and mothers who did not continue his secondary studies, a comparative analysis was realized between both experiences and system of beliefs. One conclusion is that the maternity is not a factor that generates of causal form the school desertion, it influences of exceedingly the dynamics of incorporation to the interior of the educational establishments, question that also affects in the teen mothers who are kept enrolled in school, generating stress, limiting a complete learning process. In addition, the precocious experience of the maternity debilitates the share capital, the networks of support, and the interpersonal relations with teachers and couples. Also one concludes that the teen maternity affects significantly in the reflection on the projects of life. To promote permanency in the school system must eliminate gender bias and discrimination that occur inside by both faculty and students, as well as cooperation install practices that favor school inclusion.

Key words: teens; motherhood; school failure; schooling