How can a child be a mother? Discourse on teenage pregnancy in a Brazilian favela

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-120

  Coin de Carvalho, João Eduardo ^a  

^a PAULISTA UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Body; Brazil; Discourse; Poverty; Sexuality; Teenage pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY; PARENTHOOD; POLITICS; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL LIFE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; BRAZIL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; NARRATION; PARENTING; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33847653673     PISSN: 13691058     EISSN: 14645351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691050600994448     Document Type: Article

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