Dillon Patel's List: Justice Project - Teenage Pregnancy

• The lesson that Indian leaders seem to take from sex education: Prevention is better than cure.
• for a country with a high incidence of child

  

  marriages and teenage pregnancies.
• Experts say that the case for sex education in India is quite different from in the West because it is ‘legitimate’ here for young people to have sex.
• The survey said that one in six Indian women aged 15-19 starts to have children

  

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• “Youth in India needs sex education more than in any other country since child marriage ensures that you not only have sex at a young age, you also have teenage pregnancy.”
• sex outside marriage, is “immoral, unethical and unhealthy”. It also said that consensual sex before the age of 16 “amounts to rape”.   
  
• Child marriage means huge numbers of adolescent Indians indulge in “legal” sexual activity.
• About 18% are married by the time they are 15.
• Development says that 53.2% children have faced one or more forms of sexual abuse and at least half the perpetrators were known to the child
• “We have to educate youth so they can protect themselves,” says Kumari.

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• In countries like India, a girl and her family are ridiculed in society
• n India if a girl bears child before marriage, she is subjected to traumatic experiences. Life can change entirely and a young woman may be forced to grow up before her time.

• Teen pregnancy comes as an attempt by the teen agers who wish to experience their sex desire without using any kind of precaution.
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• T Pill 72 is a perfect answer to dealing with the case of teen pregnancy.
• Teen pregnancy is viewed as a serious social disrespect and is associated with many stigmas with it.
• Now teens do not have to face the odds of the society and lose their confidence.

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• teenage pregnancy seems to be a worldwide trend with countries like the US and UK reporting high rates along with India
• in India is high with 62 pregnant

  

  teens out of every 1,000
• In India, the problems are very different. Grappling with issues like early marriage, illiteracy and high infant mortality could be possible causes for the high number of young girls getting pregnant between the ages of 15-19.
• the number of pregnant teens in Pakistan is much lower at 36.
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    The report points out that the number of women dying as a consequence of pregnancy and childbirth are unchanged since the 1980s, at about 5, 36, 000.

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• period make you able     to get pregnant and have a baby.
• Puberty – The process of developing from     a child to sexual maturity, when a person becomes     capable of having children.

• In India it is common in traditional rural communities

  • Tells us the location in which it is most common. In this case it's "traditional rural communities"
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• pread of AIDS
• rapid exposure to sex
• rise in sexual abuse
• early marriages
• 16-19
• occurs
• reasons for
• pregnancy
• drop out of school
• physically weak
• not economically self-sufficient
• children of teen mothers
• get involved
• ave developmental delays
• by the society.
• anti-social activities
• ill-treated
• illegitimate
• excessive exposure to sex
• lack of proper knowledge about sex
• factors
• to teen pregnancy
• risk factors
• Early onset of puberty
• High levels of testosterones
• concept of dating
• other
• Consumption of alcohol
• Lack
• parental care
• affection
• Peer groups
• disputes
• between parents
• Influence
• sexually active siblings
• physical and mental complications.
• lack of proper nutrition
• Physical problems
• poor eating habit
• the body
• because
• not matured enough
• society
• Mental or psychological problems
• lack of support from parents
• guilt in
• teenager
• sometimes
• cause
• child
• father of
• Prevention Programs
• governmental and non-governmental institutions
• educate the teens
• specially unmarried adolescent pregnancies
• but also
• not only
• should support and help
• teens
• parents
• information on use of contraceptives
• discussions on sex
• institutions involve counseling
• how to protect oneself from sexual abuse

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• teenage pregnancy
• not acceptable in the society
• a ’social evil
• age of 19
• attained between puberty
• Child marriage
• rape (on minors)
• Exposure to domestic violence
• sexual nature
• High risk behavior
• substance abuse
• such as smoking
• alcohol
• Stress and depression
• pit of
• child might fall
• unprotected sex
• adolescents taking steps
• Financial constraints
• poor families
• negative manner
• affect
• lives
• absence
• Nowadays
• sexual activities are quite high
• of adequate contraceptives
• start worrying about contraceptives
• 400 girl students
• after six months of sexual activity
• difficult
• to be accepted socially
• guilt
• low self esteem
• lack of interest in studies
• experience isolation
• stress and depression
• lack of support group
• imited job prospects
• find it hard
• trauma
• parents
• emotional
• mental
• friends
• due to
• Friends
• help the female
• not able to
• want to help
• ocial constraints
• prevented.
• Delaying sexual intercourse
• Parents and schools should have open talks with teenagers regarding sex and related issues
• Providing advice
• Proper contraceptive counseling
• complete information about contraceptive
• emergency contraception
• Having safe sex.
• abstain from sex
• Display responsible sexual behavior
• take it
• teenage girls
• upon themselves
• choice of contraception
• to make
• youth have to say
• should be acceptable
• When asked,
• help a friend in such
• situation,
• not publicly but
• privately
• not feel shy
• help publicly
• Some even said
• okay with sex before 19 but
• not the right age to
• bear the
• child.

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• Teenage pregnancy is defined as a teenaged or underage girl (usually within the ages of 13-17) becoming pregnant.
• Worldwide, rates of teenage pregnancy range from 143 per 1000 in some sub-Saharan African countries to 2.9 per 1000 in South Korea.^[2][3]
• Pregnant teenagers face many of the same obstetrics issues as women in their 20s and 30s.
• For mothers between 15 and 19, age in itself is not a risk factor, but additional risks may be associated with socioeconomic factors
• teenage pregnancy as a social issue in developed countries include lower educational levels, higher rates of poverty,
• A report by Save the Children found that, annually, 13 million children are born to women under age 20 worldwide
• In the Indian subcontinent, early marriage sometimes means adolescent pregnancy, particularly in rural regions where the rate is much higher than it is in urbanized areas.
• The teenage birth rate in the United States is the highest in the developed world
• he U.S. teenage pregnancy rate was at a high in the 1950s and has decreased since then
•  India 45

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