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Social Consequences of Teenage Pregnancy and Measures to Reduce Them

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This article discusses the social and economic consequences of teenage pregnancy and measures to reduce them. It also explores the adverse effects of teenage pregnancy on young parents and their children.

Social Consequences of Teenage Pregnancy and Measures to Reduce Them

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1The teenage pregnancy can be a great experience, mainly in the later years of teenage. The wide range of social and health outcomes are associated with the teenage pregnancy. Thus, the teenagepregnancy has become a social problem. Further, it gives rise to the problem of poverty and unemployment. The children of teenage mothers tend to become teenage parents themselves. Despite the availability of contraceptives and abortion facility, around 16 million teenage womengive birth every year which is further being accounted for around 11 percent of all births and the Niger has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies. In order to eradicate teenage pregnancy, various approaches can be used like creating awareness among people about better sexual health services by implementing the programs of youth development.Although, people talk about equality between both the genders but still women are being dominated by men. As women are forced to marry at the teenage, and they are forced to become pregnant as they live in a highly deprived areas and have lower educational achievements and doesn’t have adequate care homes. It has also been researched that the teenage pregnancy also has positive events for some women but to some extent only.The teenage pregnancy is being conceived between the ages of 13-18. The rate of teenage pregnancy varies significantly between different countries and the social factors which are associated with the teenage pregnancy also varies accordingly (Phipps‐Yonas, S. 1980). The teenage parents tend to access less antenatal and services which impact the social and health outcomes which further becomes the social issue (Whitaker et al., 2014). But from the past two years, the journals have started ignoring the major issue of teenage pregnancy, and they are focusing on other issues.The cogent research question which I would like to answer is the social consequences of the teenage pregnancy and the various measures to reduce them. In my opinion, there are adverse
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