Family as the basic social institution is always evolving and has been evolving even more rapidly over the past few decades. Today, we can choose among different courses of life and life events and transitions are no longer strictly predictable and socially predetermined. The percentage of the younger population who create a family in their early life is decreasing. The statistics for Slovenia shows that the young put off decision to have a child to later in life. This diploma focuses on an opposite trend to the one happening in Slovenia and the western countries – adolescent pregnancy and motherhood in young women up to 25 years of age. Adolescent pregnancy presents a pattern different from demographic trends and social expectations with regards to course of life. Slovenia has a very low rate of adolescent pregnancy which is probably the result of high sexual awareness and straightforward access to contraception. I interviewed adolescent mothers, interview results are described in the second part of diploma. The results indicate how their everyday lives were changed after pregnancy and birth of the child, their course of life after becoming an adolescent mother, how they coped with the transition into motherhood, how they experienced it, and how they had to grow up too soon to prepare for a new family member.
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