Health problems family and psychological
The young pregnant woman is at risk for anemia, preeclampsia and birth complications and high mortality risk during pregnancy itself.
Babies of teenage mothers have a high rate of mortality as well as congenital malformations can experience, developmental problems, mental retardation, blindness, epilepsy or cerebral palsy. These children have many more behavioral problems and decreased intellectual functioning.
There are marital problems and more likely to divorce young couples who joined product of a pregnancy. Because of this, the children of teenagers spend much of his life in a single parent, and they become a potential population to generate unwanted pregnancies in adolescence future.
Problems of pregnant adolescents
Pregnant teens are unlikely to continue their studies because some educational institutions choose to deny them entry for fear that they may adversely affect other students. These girls who have dropped out of school, rarely have the opportunity again to pick up where they left. Similarly young parents are at high risk of experiencing periods of unemployment and lower wages.
Another consequence of pregnancy at an early age is the risk of abortion . In general, girls with him in late gestational ages (over 12 weeks). The reasons why these delays occur are varied.
First, there is a lack of signs of pregnancy, a difficulty in communicating to the family, lack of economic opportunities, have expressed wishes of the child and an ambivalence on this fact, despite the difficulties, lack of advice and appropriate consultation where they can be the solution provided.
The reaction of the adolescent depression during pregnancy can be extremely strong that it can lead to suicide or attempted suicide, taking into account that this is the second leading cause of death in this age group after accidents. Pregnancy and the problems this can bring, the sentimental drama of separation, isolation, panic, can easily be considered “circumstantial factors of suicide.”
The psychological status of pregnant adolescents is complex and difficult . It accumulates the difficulties of adolescence, the emotional problems observed during any pregnancy, personal or family difficulties brought about by the pregnancy, which cause certain reactions in real or simply feared, the environment, concerns an uncertain future, the disturbance caused by decisions taken; is emotional vacuum, etc.