adolescents

Teen Pregnancy Has Been an Extremely Interesting Phenomenon

Emotional and psychological characteristics of adolescents:

* Young girls are experiencing feelings of loneliness, low self-confidence to try to supplement with intimate relationships with the opposite sex.

* There is little or no communication with their parents or older sisters, especially when it comes to sex. This leads them to seek and find the opinion and advice from other people his age with his own inexperience and lack of correct patterns.

* There is also an inordinate desire to come into contact with “new experiences”.

* In addition it appears that young people included in special education programs are also more likely to get pregnant in their teens.

* All statistics demonstrates that there is a greater number of pregnancies among adolescents whose families are separated and in single-parent families.

* Among teenage mothers, there is a common factor to all of them: a bad history of academic performance. There is a high rate of early school dropout, especially among younger mothers.

* Up to 60% of young mothers are in families whose parents are separated, and 40% has never lived stable family situation.

Adolescent Pregnancy Poverty1

Teen pregnancy has been an extremely interesting phenomenon, so far the research on teen pregnancy has focused on medical complications during pregnancy, psychosocial causes and consequences of adolescent fertility, demographic changes over time and the consequences on the development of children. But we also need to draw attention to the long-term consequences of adolescent pregnancy on the alternative roles of women and their economic status.

There is a strong association between early pregnancy in a generation and age at pregnancy of the next generation, because it is more likely that a woman who was an early mother is the daughter of a woman who was also a teenage mother. Therefore, if teen pregnancy is prevalent poverty and in turn has economic, social, intergenerational repetition of teenage pregnancy can be an intermediary mechanism in the intergenerational reproduction of poverty.

Self-esteem

Few studies have examined how social values and psychological impact on adolescents and their reproductive health, and even some policy makers may challenge public health if the notions of “self” and “self-confidence are important in developing countries. Yet feelings of insecurity, fear and self doubt can interfere with the proper behavior regarding reproductive health in any culture, FHI research scientist who specializes in adolescent health. If you do not have confidence in themselves, it is possible that young adults do not seek health services playback, or be able to say no to unwanted sex.

A Medical Risk

Pregnancy and childbirth from a woman younger than age 20 have a high risk since they are also various factors that increase the likelihood of complications, including women’s own age, low birth weight and prematurity of the child the child.

Being the first child is another risk factor. Whenever you are more likely to suffer fetal distress during the last stages of pregnancy and childbirth.

Poor nutrition and poor adolescent sleep and health during pregnancy are also risk factors. Also there is often a habitual lack of prenatal care in the young mothers by the frequent denial of pregnancy by the teenager.