ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasises that maternity and adolescence have a unique subjective dimension and, at the same time, are social constructs, thus, the specificity of adolescent maternity relates to the socio-cultural determinants of each particular period, region, and social stratum. In the socio-cultural context of a globalised world, in which middle-class women have accessed education and employment almost equally to men, and maternity appears as an option, adolescent maternity is identified as a problem to be avoided. This is supported in specific discourses of academic literature that highlight a focus on risk from a medical, social, and psychological point of view. In a time of high psychological permeability such as adolescence, it enables a process of restructuring identifications in providing an environment that is described in D. W. Winnicott's terms, as facilitating and supportive. The common denominator of hilflosigkeit (helplessness) results in a greater urgency to meet all kinds of demands, as well as transgressions, in order to obtain what they want fast.
