In our world today most especially in the developing country, teenage pregnancy is as a result of traditional roles and early marriage, because teenage pregnancy is seen as a blessing and a proof that the young woman is fertile. In most cases, poverty contributes to this, when one does not have someone to take care of her at her early age.
In the developed world, the causes of teenage pregnancy is different in the sense that it is mostly outside marriage and carries lots of social stigma. Thus, adolescent sexual behaviour is one of the causes of teenage pregnancy. In our world today, having sex before 20yrs is the in thing, it is even the normal all over the world and this brought about high levels of adolescent pregnancy which creates sexual relationship among teenagers without the provision of comprehensive information about sex.
The in-take of drugs, alcohol etc contributes a lot to teenage pregnancy meanwhile as a teenager you may not be ready for sexual intercourse at that moment but being intoxicated with drugs and alcohol makes you to be involved in unintended sexual activity just because sex at that time is less emotionally painful and embarrassing. To avoid this, eradicate anything alcohol or drugs.
Furthermore, sexual abuse is also one of the causes of teenage pregnancy. Rape as a sexual abuse has more effect in the life of our teenage girls causing unwanted sex and teenage pregnancy.
Conclusively, age discrepancies also causes teenage pregnancy in the sense that a teenage girl with a partner much older than herself is more likely to get pregnant more often than a girl that have a partner of a close age, as she prefers having the children than abortion since she is not educated enough to use contraceptives.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Teenage Pregnancy Issue in Our World Today
Teenage age can be said to be the transitional stage whereby human being develops that is between childhood and full adulthood. This also represents the period of time a boy or girl is biologically an adult but not to full maturity emotionally.
Pregnancy can be referred to as the process whereby a female carries live offspring from the time of conception to childbirth. It is also the state of being pregnant, that is the period starting from conception to the birth of the baby when a woman carries a developing fetus in her womb (Uterus).
Having known the full meaning of this two (Teenage age and Pregnancy), Teenage pregnancy then can be defined as a girl that is under-aged becoming pregnant with a baby. In some countries if a girl is not up to 18 years and become pregnant with a baby it is called teenage pregnancy though teenage age differs from one country to the other.
In our world today, we all noticed that that there are many changes in our young girls today, most of them having their first menstrual periods at very early age which was not so before meaning that the average age of first pregnancy has been declining and will continue to do so.
In this aspect, the first ovulation is irregular until after some time and because of this irregularities in ovulation and fertile days, our girls are confused about their body temperature, remain adamant and unserious towards the dangers of early pregnancy.
Teenage pregnancy carries social stigma in many cultures of a developing country and it is mostly outside of marriage. It brings about high risk of poverty, illiteracy or lower educational levels and ones it happens, such girl will ever have a mark that hinders her progress in future. Well as we go ahead, we will learn how to get this to a stop so that our young girls will stop falling victim of this stigma.
Pregnancy can be referred to as the process whereby a female carries live offspring from the time of conception to childbirth. It is also the state of being pregnant, that is the period starting from conception to the birth of the baby when a woman carries a developing fetus in her womb (Uterus).
Having known the full meaning of this two (Teenage age and Pregnancy), Teenage pregnancy then can be defined as a girl that is under-aged becoming pregnant with a baby. In some countries if a girl is not up to 18 years and become pregnant with a baby it is called teenage pregnancy though teenage age differs from one country to the other.
In our world today, we all noticed that that there are many changes in our young girls today, most of them having their first menstrual periods at very early age which was not so before meaning that the average age of first pregnancy has been declining and will continue to do so.
In this aspect, the first ovulation is irregular until after some time and because of this irregularities in ovulation and fertile days, our girls are confused about their body temperature, remain adamant and unserious towards the dangers of early pregnancy.
Teenage pregnancy carries social stigma in many cultures of a developing country and it is mostly outside of marriage. It brings about high risk of poverty, illiteracy or lower educational levels and ones it happens, such girl will ever have a mark that hinders her progress in future. Well as we go ahead, we will learn how to get this to a stop so that our young girls will stop falling victim of this stigma.
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