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Simply defined, teenage pregnancy is the condition where a woman who is still under the age of 20 years old suddenly becomes pregnant, with or without a husband, boyfriend, or partner. True enough, there are a number of factors that may cause teenage pregnancy, although most of them dwell more on individual factors more than anything else. But then again, a lot of family issues and social problems can also be attributed as a good reason why our teens get pregnant at a young age.

Is The Childhood To Blame?

More often than not, the upbringing, culture, education, morals, beliefs, and religion of the teenager are the very factors affect her choice of whether or not to get pregnant and proceed to bear children at their present age. However, the mere use of the word “choice” here is certainly debatable. And much of it is due to the fact that a lot of teenagers who happen to be pregnant may not really have that option to choose a different scenario otherwise. There are also others that simply fail to understand the dire consequences of the situation that they are so blindly heading into.

Teenage Pregnancy Happens Worldwide

Teenage pregnancy is not just a problem in the UK or U.S. It is a rather sad fact that this has grown to become an issue across the world. All countries, no matter how big or how small, whether rich or poor, do have their own share of problems when it comes to their younger population having kids of their own. Countries like Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Denmark, had all once fought with issues dealing with teenage pregnancy. The statistics they acquire with regards to this problem each year is a telltale sign of their struggle.
Teenage mothers do not only impose high health risks to herself but to the child she is bearing as well. For a fact, teenage mothers have higher maternal and perinatal risks.

Is The Government To Blame?

Currently, the government works hard to discourage the rise of teenage pregnancy cases.
Poverty is the most common reason why teenagers get pregnant. Researches show that teenage parents are mostly concentrated among the poor, marginalized, and often radically segregated areas. High crime rate, inferior housing, poor school structures, and inadequate health services usually characterize the place they came from.

One other contributing factor of teenage pregnancy is the fact that the teen has once been subjected under a care or a foster home. A certain study indicated that those teens that had been placed these facilities at one point in time are more than twice as likely to be teenage mothers when compared to those who had been brought up by their natural or biological parents. Incidentally, the teenage girls who choose to leave their shelters have a 50% of becoming mothers in the next eighteen to twenty-four months.

Mothers who have poor educational achievement are also more likely to have pregnant teens. And in the same way, teens that drop out from school for no valid reason at all are set to become pregnant in the near future. Teenagers who are not in school, under training, or doesn’t have a job after the age of 16 years old are at also at a high chance of getting pregnant.

Now if the teenager is a daughter of a previously teenage mother herself, she is very likely to become just like her mother. This particular instance is very common – and much of it is because the daughter will see no harm in being one as her mother had been like it in the past. The idea that a daughter is likely to follow her mother, whether or not she looks up at her as a model, is very real.

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