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Pregnant Teens

Teenage pregnancy and teenage pregnancy is that pregnancy that occurs in an adolescent female, between adolescence and puberty, early onset of childbearing age, and lateadolescence. WHO sets the teens between 10 and 19 years most teenage pregnancies are considered unwanted pregnancies, caused by the practice of sex without contraception.

In general, the term also refers topregnant women who have not reached the legal age of majority, varies for different countries, as well as pregnant teenagers who are in a position of dependence on the family of origin.

Pregnantteens also to face the same situation as any other pregnant woman must face, a priori, with less protection, with greater concerns about their health and socioeconomic status, especially so under 15 andadolescents of countries with little care and no social protection of pregnant adolescents.

The birth rate among teenagers in the United States is the highest in the developed world, and the rateof abortion among adolescents is also high. En U.S. teen pregnancy rate was extremely high in the 1950 and has declined since then, although there has been a rise in births outside marriage.

Causesof teenage pregnancy

In some societies, early marriage and gender roles traditionally assigned to women are important factors in high rates of teenage pregnancy.
In societies where adolescentmarriage is uncommon women, the root cause of teenage pregnancy is the practice of sex without birth control young women so these pregnancies are considered unplanned pregnancy or unwanted pregnancy.Adolescents may lack sufficient information and knowledge about contraception or you do not have easy access to their purchase. They may also feel ashamed to ask how much to buy contraceptives.

Inadolescents over 80% of pregnancies are unwanted. And more than half of unintended pregnancies occur in women not using contraception and most of the rest of unwanted pregnancies are due to incorrect...
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