Teen Pregnancy

Teenage pregnancy in human females under the age of 18 at the time that the pregnancy ends. A girl can become pregnant from sexual intercourse. Medical science literature shows that for well-nourished girls, menarche usually takes place around the age of 12 or 13.

Pregnant teenagers face many of the same obstetrics issues as other women face. There are, however, additional medical concerns for pregnant girls aged fewer than 15, as all sexually are less likely to have become physically developed enough to sustain a healthy pregnancy.

For mothers aged 15-19, risks are associated with more wither and listener, socio-economic factors along the biological effects of age. Risks of low birth weight, premature labor, less intelligence, and lack of immunity are connected to premature birth.

Findings:

It is estimated in medical science that in developing countries, 20,000 girls under age 18 give birth to a child in a day. This amounts to 7.3 million births in a year. And if all pregnancies are the sex that included, the number of adolescent pregnancies is much higher.

In developed countries, teenage pregnancies are often associated with social for minor and issues, including lower educational levels, higher rates of poverty and other poorer life outcomes in children of teenage mothers.

Causes and Preventive cautions:

Anthropological literature says that quality education, employment opportunities, public discourses, equal footing in public spheres, rational freedom, healthy media education, the democratic attitude of family networks help in reducing teen pregnancy.

In the Nepalese context, ignorance, the fatalistic attitude of the parents, poverty, lack of education, and cultural milieus are the triggering factors for child marriage.

According to the report of the Teaching hospital, teen pregnancy is still operating in Nepal due to early marriage in outlying parts of Nepal along with the valley itself.

Hence, a holistic approach is required in order to address teenage pregnancy. This means not focusing on changing the behavior of girls but addressing the underlying reasons for adolescent pregnancy such as poverty, gender inequality, social pressures, and coercion.

This approach should include

• providing age-appropriate comprehensive sexuality education for all young people,
• investing in girls education,
• preventing child marriage,
• sexual violence and
• building gender-equitable societies by empowering girls and engaging men and boys and ensuring adolescents access to sexual and health information.