Pregnant teenagers in the public schools of southern Brazil: bodies that vanish from schools!
International Journal of Development Research
Pregnant teenagers in the public schools of southern Brazil: bodies that vanish from schools!
Received 10th December, 2017; Received in revised form 26th January, 2018; Accepted 23rd February, 2018; Published online 30th March, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Denise Regina Quaresma da Silva and Everton Rodrigo Santos. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This article integrates the results of a qualitative study that aimed to characterize the practices related to sex education and profile the treatment received by pregnant teenagers in 30 state primary schools in the city of Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), with the intention of examining the processes of sex education in schools, as well as analyze the evasion and educational/social exclusion of these students. Theoretically, we have retrieved some contribution from gender studies. The results were obtained through interviews with the management staff of these educational institutions. We conclude that the stigmas surrounding teenage pregnancy marginalize the teenager, and the disregard towards this social issue is one of the enablers for the school dropout of the great majority of pregnant adolescents. In the study conducted, we confirmed the social/academic exclusion of these teenagers.
