Social workers generally consider teenage pregnancy as an important problem, a point of view which is supported by many studies that underline the negative consequences of maternity at this stage of the life course. This article further examines this question through the analysis of labour market trajectories of young women who have not completed their studies and who gave birth during their teenage years or in their early twenties. Based on retrospective semi-directed interviews, the results show that employment outcomes for these young women are not a fore drawn conclusion. Through family support and formal programmes, many manage to obtain stable employment. However, government programmes remain a shaky form of support and the shortcomings of these programmes cannot be systematically made up by help from the family.