Teenage pregnancy by 99 percent of cases that are not desirable and the main consequences of teenage sexual activity, other sexually transmitted diseases. This issue has affected youth, families, educators, health professionals, and government officials. A study on high school adolescents has concluded that 48 percent of men and 45 percent of women are sexually active.
A quarter of secondary students having sex at the age of fifteen. The average age sixteen men and a woman of seventeen, to have sex. Ninety percent of adolescents, age range 15-19 years, saying that they are unwanted pregnancies.
Seventy-four percent of women over fourteen years and sixty percent of women under the age of fifteen years of reporting voluntary sex. Fifty percent of teenage pregnancies is within six months after first sexual intercourse. More than 900,000 teenagers become pregnant each year are reported in the United States.
Fifty-one percent of teenage pregnancies in live births, 35 percent of the abortions and fourteen percent in the killed or miscarriage. Four out of ten young women become pregnant before the age of twenty, at least once. Twenty-five percent of teens who give birth are the mother’s first child. When teens give birth to her first child, it increases the risk of another child. One-third of teen parents themselves the result of teenage pregnancy.
There are many reasons why young people choose to become sexually active at an early stage of life. The reason could be the beginning of pubertal development, poverty, sexual abuse during childhood, lack of parental attention, lack of career goals, family and cultural patterns of early sexual abuse, substance activity, dropped school and poor school performance.
Factors like a girl becomes sexually active a stable family environment, parental supervision, family income, which is very good, regular prayer, contact with parents and living with a complete family of both parents. Factors responsible for the consistent use of contraception among young people academic success, expectations for future success and participation in a stable relationship.
There are medical risks associated with teen pregnancy. Young people under seventeen years at an increased risk of developing medical complications, compared with adult women. The risks are even more under seventeen young. Weight of children, birth by a young woman who is very low in pregnancy. Usually less than 2.5 kilograms. Neonatal birth rate is three times higher in children compared with adults. Another problem caused by adolescent pregnancy, especially when children, children born of light, maternal weight gain, poor nutrition, anemia, sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy-induced hypertension.
Although there is an increase in contraceptive use among teenagers during their first sexual contact, only 63 percent of high school students have been told to use condoms, while sex before. Young people who use prescription contraception, delays visit their doctor until they are sexually active for more than a year.
According to one study, young people involved in sex education programs that provide them with knowledge about contraception, sexually transmitted diseases and young people involved in discussions to get a clear, effective contraception and condom use without increasing sexual activity . Center for Disease Control and Prevention has said that the solution to unwanted pregnancies in teenagers and sexually transmitted diseases using barrier contraception and abstinence.
