This contemplation examined patterns, variations, and existential turning points in young mothers' narratives of self and their visions of the yet to be as part of a larger hermeneutic, longitudinal thought The study was philosophically based in the phenomenology of everyday practices as inherently meaningful, situated, and historically derived and drew on dialogical views of the self The sample consisted of 13 (of the original 16) young mothers and family members who had been interviewed 4 years earlier. For the at hand study, data consisted of life history accounts of the
