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.