Gravidez na adolescência, educação sexual e planejamento reprodutivo: um estudo aproximativo da realidade das usuárias da Maternidade Escola Januário Cicco

Abstract

The article aims to contribute to the production of knowledge by unraveling the determinations and contradictions present in teenage pregnancy, as well as the particularities of Rio Grande do Norte, based on the internship experience at the Januário Cicco Maternity School. To this end, the research used the dialectical materialist method, based on a bibliographical review of authors such as Federici (2004), Michel Foucault (1988), Lélia Gonzalez (1979), Cisne and Santos (2018), and studies on teenage pregnancy and early motherhood, as well as a survey of quantitative secondary data, with the aim of analyzing the social phenomena surrounding the history of the control of female bodies and sexuality, as well as the violations of women's rights, especially those of socioeconomically vulnerable adolescents, including sexual and reproductive rights, which result in the reproduction of early motherhood in the state of RN due to the perpetuation of cycles of gender, class and race inequalities. The results indicate that adolescents who experience teenage pregnancy and early motherhood constitute a heterogeneous group, requiring their own strategies for sexual education and reproductive planning actions. Reinforces the need for intersectoral articulation and action of public policies to guarantee the prevention of teenage pregnancy, going beyond sexual education, but having it as a key element; and, in the case of early motherhood, to preserve the life projects of adolescents in this condition. These policies, notably sexual education, face a scenario of strengthening conservatism in the country and pose a permanent challenge for Social Service action in different socio-occupational spaces.