Teenage Pregnancy

Teenage pregnancy generally refers to an underage girl in her teenage becoming pregnant. The age we are talking about here is somewhere between 13-17 yrs. At any rate, even with the slight difference in age over the global divide, the consensus is that the girl must not have attained legal adulthood.

The average age of menarche (the onset of menstruation) is on a constant decline and teenage pregnancy rates are registering an all time high with the increasingly liberal way of living in western countries.

Early marriages in few countries also attribute towards teenage pregnancy. In few Sub-Saharan countries, early gestation is a clean evidence of higher fertility which again is a cause for celebration there. (Perhaps they fail to understand that with a deprived economy, the fertility might just be the harbinger of serious crisis.)

Teenage pregnancy is also the result of copulation at a young age and avoidance of contraceptive for greater pleasure. This is the case in well developed western countries. These countries cleanly accept sexual relation among its teenage population and parents also send their children on date themselves. Reasons may be varied across the global divide; the result is largely the same.

Much health, social and economic turmoil awaits a teenage mother. As the eggs released during ovulation can be fertilized prior to menarche, contraception is perhaps the only safeguard against early-age pregnancy. Girls fail to apply such methods and end up being pregnant. Pre-marriage pregnancy largely results in abortion. This implies culmination of a full-fledged organism owing to one’s own pleasure seeking traits.

Plenty of obstetric ailments germinate along with nutritional issues in a young mother. There are also the problems of mortality associated with such pregnancy. Missing periods for a great span of time is a tell-tale sign of pregnancy and hence doctors must conduct tests despite being ascertained by young girls about lack of sexual intercourse.