… adolescent mothers in our study context. In rural South Africa, and as reflected in our study
population demographics, adolescent mothers … rates of school dropout after pregnancy [43,44]…

… First, we introduce the young mothers’ contexts, with a … motherhood not only contribute to
their lack of resources, but also work to inform programs attempting to provide young mothers …

… This study also attempted to uncover the complex relationship between factors and teenage
pregnancy. Results of this systematic review suggest that future research needs to examine …

… system influence the transitions to parenthood for young mothers in foster care. This …
relational contexts in which young mothers in foster care experience the transition to parenthood…

… and mothers uniquely contribute to adolescents’ … relationship to female and male adolescent’s
self-esteem. Second, by controlling for changes in the quality of the parental relationship …

… from Mankweng, Limpopo, who were interviewed using a phenomenology approach to
discover how these adolescents view their relationship with their mothers. The concept of “being …

… The authors would like to thank the women who participated in this study along with the NHS
Midwifery Service for Teenage Mothers for their invaluable help with recruitment. We would …

… contexts for adolescent pregnancy, we wondered how the experience of … teen mothers to
become more reflective and sensitive parents. Clinicians who work with pregnant adolescents …

… Adolescent mothers have been found to be less knowledgeable about child development,
more punitive in their attitudes about childrearing and are twice as likely as older mothers to …

… “mothering subject” as shifting, relational, and changeable, and stress that we understand the
practice of mothering as … In focusing on the relational dimensions of mothering, we draw on …