title: [The relationship-based meaning of teenage pregnancy in Bogotá regarding the family system].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Ascertaining the meaning of teenage pregnancy for teenagers and their immediate families.
  
  
  METHODS
  This was an analytical, cross-sectional, exploratory, qualitative study. Data was obtained through in-depth interviews with 10 pregnant teenagers and their immediate families, plus a focus group involving another 12 pregnant teenagers.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Analysis by category revealed a tenuous limit between adolescents' narrative identity and a lack of such identity and identity based on the concept of family. Pregnancy provokes a series of responses within families, including fear in a pregnant adolescent and her partner, disappointment on the part of the parents, social isolation and eventual acceptance and redefinition of such pregnancy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pregnancy can provide the means for an adolescent to redress a deficit in her emotional needs, such condition keeping the family together at the expense of a teenager's emancipation and may represent an intergenerational legacy.
authors.affiliation: Asesor Independiente, Bogotá, Colombia.
authors.forename: Eliane
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Barreto-Hauzeur
authors.affiliation: Escuela de Educación Médica, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, mlsaenzl@unal.edu.co.
authors.forename: María L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Sáenz-Lozada
authors.affiliation: Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar, Sogamoso, Colombia.
authors.forename: Fabiola
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Velandia-Sepulveda
authors.affiliation: Fundaterapia, Bogotá, Colombia.
authors.forename: Jeny
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gómez-González
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D003105:Colombia; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000523:psychology*; D036301:Qualitative Research