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The objective of this paper is to introduce the results of a research work about the psychosocial references within the family context, made with nine adolescent mothers between 16 and 20 years of age. The research was performed in the Aranjuez and Castilla sectors, in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia, where the Fundación Carla Cristina's UPAs (Pedagogical Support Units, for the acronym in Spanish) work. This qualitative research work was oriented to the phenomenological-hermeneutical method and aims to understand the meaning of the motherhood experience in the exercise of breeding children among the adolescents and to establish the generational continuity/discontinuity between mothers and daughters. Semi-structured interviews a reflection workshop and dialogs with the grandmothers were performed in order to analyze the links between mothers and children, the structure of the rules, the way affection is exercised and the influence of the family support networks on the role of the mothers and on the breeding ways. Among the findings, the way adolescent mothers re-take conceptions from their mothers and the forms in which they exercise motherhood are remarked, and also is the way they give new meanings and modify the link and the interaction ways with their children under affection terms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]