Abstract
The marginalization of the topics related to conception in parental inter-generational communication with teenagers and inter-gender interpersonal communication in the so-called lower socioeconomic population in Lima leads to the "backgrounding" of the fact that (unprotected) sexual activity can lead to unintentional pregnancy. This supports the normalization of unintentional and accidental pregnancies, forced pregnancies as well as abortions (forced or not), and the birth of unwanted and abandoned offspring.
The purpose of the presentation is to present some local assumptions and areas of misunderstanding related to conception as I encountered them during my ethnographic research in pregnancy in Lima, and how pregnant women / girls are treated differently depending on their age starting at the age of nine, with the adolescents category being no single group. In the so-called lower socioeconomic strata, the biological father of the first-born child is mostly absent and abandonment and precarity of women-mothers are common.
In Peru persist a high-intensity patriarchy and rape culture which nourish values and practices that lead men to ignore the possibility of pregnancy. In Latin America, as opposed to the declining birth rates, teenage pregnancies are not falling, and, in Peru, they are rising.
Abortion in this country is illegal, teenage pregnancy prevention is low or non-existent, and planned parenthood has little impact, the generation gap between adolescents and parents is deep, and many Catholic and evangelical parents are protesting against "gender ideology" and school curricula updates. I apply family systems theory and sociocultural and biological approaches for my interpretation.
More specifically, I focus on the areas of gender asymmetry, female body dispossession, agency, disempowerment, commitment and (ir)responsibility, faith, trust, bad luck, shame (vergüenza), "respect" and secondary victimization.