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Causes and implications of teenage pregnancy
Tsai and Wong (2003) identified a number of risk factors that contribute to teenage pregnancy. Those
factors are: unsafe sexual activity, under use of contraception, numerous sexual partners, substance
misuse, deprivation, insufficient attendance and bad performance at school and sometimes school
drop out, low family income or single parent family.
Adolescent pregnancy is one of the main issues in every health care system. The reason is that an
early pregnancy can have harmful implications on girls’ physical, psychological, economic and social
status (Tsai and Wong 2003). It has been found (DoH 1999) that teenage mothers have poor antenatal
care as they do not attend their antenatal appointments, they tend to deliver low birth weight babies,
premature babies and babies who die during the first year of their life. Additionally the infant
mortality and morbidity rates are higher for infants delivered by teenage mothers than infants
delivered by older women. (Anderson et al. 2000) Also, it is more likely these children will be raised in
single‐parents families and to live in poverty (Social Exclusion Unit 1999),
Also, as studies have been shown (Moffitt et al. 2002) early motherhood is associated with low
educational achievement, long term benefit receipt, low or no income, low occupational status, or
unemployment and therefore, it can affect teenage girls’ well being. (Tsai and Wong 2003).
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