title: [Facing the difficult experience even with support: the underage adolescent experiencing motherhood].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To understand the meaning of childcare for the underage adolescent mother, to reveal the demands of care and to build a theoretical model based on this experience.
  
  
  METHODS
  Qualitative research with symbolic interactionism as the theoretical framework and the grounded theory as the methodological framework; nine adolescents participated in the study. The semi-structured interview was used to collect data from September 2008 to September 2011, during paediatric nursing consultation at the Centro Assistencial Cruz de Malta, a philanthropic institution in the city of São Paulo/Brazil.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Data analysis led to the construction of the theoretical model,Facing a difficult experience even with support.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The experience shows that the difficulties to care for a child, even with help, are not met, only mitigated, and that underage adolescents do not have the maturity to cope with this experience.
authors.affiliation: Centro Assistencial Cruz de Malta, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: Paula Rosenberg de
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Andrade
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Pediátrica, Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: Conceição Vieira da Silva
authors.initials: CV
authors.lastname: Ohara
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Pediátrica, Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: Regina Issuzu Hirooka de
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Borba
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Pediátrica, Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: Circéa Amalia
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Ribeiro
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007224:Infant Care; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent