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“Just because I'm a mum doesn't mean I'm going to be a complete bum”: re-presenting teenage mums in the UK through life

“Just because I'm a mum doesn't mean I'm going to be a complete bum”: re-presenting teenage mums in the UK through life course analysis. Louise Hampton University of East Anglia. Great Yarmouth. © Ben Hampton. Teenage Mums. I had implant because I felt like having sex says girl, 13

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“Just because I'm a mum doesn't mean I'm going to be a complete bum”: re-presenting teenage mums in the UK through life

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  1. “Just because I'm a mum doesn't mean I'm going to be a complete bum”: re-presenting teenage mums in the UK through life course analysis. Louise Hampton University of East Anglia

  2. Great Yarmouth © Ben Hampton

  3. Teenage Mums I had implant because I felt like having sex says girl, 13 The Telegraph, 08.02.12 Teen Pregnancy May be Contagious Daily Express, 9.08.2011 THE TEENAGE MUMS WHO BECOME NIGHTCLUBBING, 30-SOMETHING GRANNIES Daily Mail, 27.04.2008

  4. Teen pregnancy in 1971: 50.6% Teenage pregnancy rates in 1981: 30.9% Teenage rates in 2007: 26% In 2009 school aged mums: 0.16% (Duncan et al, 2010; YWCA, 2009) Teenage Mums: the statistics

  5. Acceptable Life Courses • Delayed motherhood • Higher education • Home ownership • Employment • Marriage

  6. The Study

  7. “Children having children” “And I do think it’s time to address a problem that for too long has gone unspoken, the number of children having children. For it cannot be right, for a girl of sixteen, to get pregnant, be given the keys to a council flat and be left on her own.” Gordon Brown 2009 “children having children...we have become far too tolerant of social failure” David Cameron 2007 Dominant discourses: teen mums as deviant life course

  8. Natasha “its really boring and lonely just sitting by yourself in a room ... I'd rather live with my mum” Dominant Discourse: teen mums as deviant life course • Myth of planned pregnancy • Teen mums and the manipulation of the welfare system; Have a baby, get a council house

  9. Mae “He's made me look at life completely differently” Elizabeth “before I had her I was really rough, really mouthy, a horrible naughty Chav...since having the baby I've grown up a lot” Libby “i lost loads of friends...we just didn't have anything in common any more” Teen Mums: The Reality • After Motherhood • Impact of becoming a mum • Change in behaviour • Relationships and lifestyle

  10. Teen mums: resisting the dominant life course • Sharon:“I've finished my first year and have had a break in between years to have my baby and get on track. I'm going back to college in September to finish my hairdressing qualification. In 4 weeks time I'm going back to work at the Co-op and am starting on 16 hours a week. I'm really looking forward to going back. I don't want my baby thinking “my mum is a bum””. • Elizabeth: “They show mums neglecting their kids and not everyone would behave like that. It shows us all to be bad... I want to prove to people that just because I'm a mum doesn't mean I'm going to be a complete bum.”

  11. Policy implications • Pre motherhood • - Consistent approach to continuing learning for school aged teen mums • Post motherhood • - Tap into new found motivation by offering programmes of learning and training that provide adequate childcare • - Prevention message stereotypes teen mums and undermines policy to support teen mothers

  12. Thank you Louise Hampton The University of East Anglia louise.hampton@hotmail.com

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