Teenage Pregnancy
July 5, 2008
Effects of teenage pregnancy 1- What is a teenage? It is anywhere between 10 and 19 years. Getting pregnant at this age can be serious. Mortality rates are 4 times higher for a pregnant teenager in the age bracket of 15 to 19, than for women aged between 25 and 29 years.
The unborn child is at augmented risk too. For girls falling into the age bracket of 10 to 14, it is even worse. Should they have live births, the infant is likely to die soon or face serious health challenges.
Effects of teenage pregnancy 2 – Teenage pregnancy makes it hard for the girl to carry on with her education. The drop-out rate is so pretty high. Even if they come from similar backgrounds, 61 percent of adolescents wait till the age of 20 to 21 to have babies and therefore complete high school. In contrast are those girls who give birth to children before they have finished 18 years of age; only 41 percent become high school graduates.
Effects of teenage pregnancy 3 – Even after giving birth, the young mother finds it difficult to keep up with her peers where academic presentation is concerned. She is required to do again classes and exhibits poor scoring in standardized tests. Eventually, she may never graduate at all.
Effects of teenage pregnancy 4 – Finding a usual source of income becomes hard as every job position demands certain skills which are noticeably lacking because of not having a proper education.
Effects of teenage pregnancy 5 – The only option left after a teenage pregnancy is to take public assistance, that is, go on welfare. Most of these teens are unmarried and over 75 percent of them ask for support within 5 years of becoming mothers. Some researchers feel that poverty-ridden teenagers welcome pregnancy so that they can get financial support from the child’s father; this is supposed to be a survival mechanism to escape desperate poverty.
Effects of teenage pregnancy 6 – Children born to such young parents often show retarded psycho-social development and malnutrition effects. This is because a teenage mother lacks parenting skills. She fails to know what her child needs and does not realize the importance of smiling, touching or verbally communicating with her child. Anger against society is taken out on the child and physical abuse is likely.
(7) When grown up, the young ones of these ‘teen mothers’ exhibit behavioral tendencies which are deemed communally unacceptable. This is in fact the worst effect of a teenage pregnancy. The son can become a criminal offender and land up in prison – the rate is three times more for these boys than normal criminals. The daughter may follow in the footsteps of her mother and become a victim of adolescent pregnancy herself.
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