This paper analyzes the adolescent mothers, relating their socio-demographic data with monthly income of households where they live. This is a quantitative study in which secondary data from the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) from 2001 to 2008 were used. We deemed adolescent mothers those who already had children born alive at the time of the surveys, which are being studied in regard to their reproductive behavior, school attendance, years of study, household condition and condition of employment. To observe the influence of socio-economic background on the reproductive behavior of adolescent mothers, as well as on the other aspects mentioned above, these were grouped according to the monthly income of the households where they lived. All information about the adolescent mothers was compared with those of the adolescent girls the same age who had not had live births, separated into two age groups: 15 to 17 and 18 to 19 years.
motherhood in adolescence; adolescents; public policies
