(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2019-11-22) Herrera, Damaris
The objective of this essay is to analyze the impact of adolescent pregnancy on the family, educational and work trajectories of young women in the rural district of Umari, Pachitea, Huánuco, through a comparative analysis between young women who experienced and not an early motherhood. Based on this, we aim to verify if an adolescent pregnancy event changes the life trajectories of rural adolescents. A qualitative approach is proposed, using semi-structured interviews that were carried out with two groups of young women between 19 and 29 years old. The results point out that family trajectories differ between the two groups, since young mothers tend to live with their partners, dedicating themselves mainly to housework while the young non-mothers continue to live with their families. The educational trajectory is the crucial difference between both groups, since young non-mothers tend to access higher education, in contrast to adolescent mothers, since none of them do. Regarding the work trajectories, it is found that, after a few years, the young mothers begin to work like their non-mother peers, but they access informal, temporary and low-income jobs, while their peers access formal, safe and low-income jobs, and better income, associated with their educational level. However, they share similar trajectories with those young non-mothers who did not study, confirming the hypothesis that adolescent pregnancy, in a context of social vulnerability, does not imply a major change in the life trajectories of the young women, such as the possibilities of social mobility.
