Growing Up Pregnant: Events of Kinship in Everyday Life

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Title:	Growing Up Pregnant: Events of Kinship in Everyday Life
Author:	Ringsted, Mette
Year:	2004
Periodical:	African Sociological Review (ISSN 1027-4332)
Volume:	8
Issue:	1
Pages:	100-117
Language:	English
Notes:	biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:	Tanzania East Africa
Subjects:	single mothers kinship pregnancy Urbanization and Migration Health and Nutrition Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Women's Issues Cultural Roles Health, Nutrition, and Medicine Family Life urbanization sociology Teenage pregnancy social relations Family structure
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/24487418
Abstract:	Based on fieldwork carried out in 2002-2003 in Muheza, a roadside town in northeastern Tanzania, this paper explores how pregnant girls and young mothers, between the ages of 14 and 19, manage their social relations during pregnancy and early motherhood. Whereas most of the pregnant girls and young mothers in this study lived as 'unwanted family members', others were reintegrated into their families. The paper focuses on how they actively negotiate and form 'relatedness' to reduce uncertainty in their daily life, and particularly how they and their children struggle not to be excluded from reciprocal family responsibilities. Bibliogr., notes, sum. [Journal abstract, edited]