Teenage pregnancy in ninety nine percent of these cases, unwanted and is the main consequences of teenage sexual activity, other sexually transmitted diseases. This issue has affected youth, families, teachers, health workers and civil servants. Research on high school adolescents has concluded that forty eight percent of men and forty-five percent of sexually active women. A quarter of students had sex for fifteen years. The average age of boys and girls sixteen seventeen who had sexual intercourse. Ninety percent of adolescents aged Fifteen to nineteen, say their pregnancy is not intentional.
Seventy-four percent of women over the age of fourteen and sixty percent of girls under fifteen years reported forced sex. Fifty percent of teenage pregnancies in the six-month period after first sexual intercourse. More than nine hundred thousand teenagers reported to have become pregnant each year in the United States. Fifty-one percent of teenage pregnancies as a result of live births, thirty-five percent as a result of abortion, and fourteen per cent of stillbirths and miscarriages. Four out of ten teenage girls become pregnant before they turn twenty, at least once. Twenty-five percent of teenagers are not sending their first child in the mother. When teens give birth to her first child, thus increasing the risk of having another child. One-third of teenage parents themselves the result of teenage pregnancy.
There are many reasons why adolescents choose to become sexually active at an early stage of life. This can have an early sexual development, poverty, sexual abuse in childhood, lack of parental attention, lack of career goals, family and cultural patterns of early sex, substance abuse, school dropout and poor school performance. Factors that hinder adolescents become sexually active is a stable family environment, parental supervision, good family income, regular prayer, relationships with parents and live with a full family and both parents. Factors responsible for the continued use of contraception among adolescents performance, expectations for a successful future and participate in a stable relationship.
There are many medical risks associated with teenage pregnancy. Teenagers are less than seventeen years, with a greater risk of complications, compared with older women. The risk of even more young people below and seventeen. Weight babies born to teenagers, is very low in pregnancy. This is usually under 2.5 kg. Level of newborns, also three times higher than among adolescent adults. Another problem associated with teenage pregnancy are premature babies, the birth of children with low birth weight, poor maternal weight, malnutrition, anemia, sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy-induced hypertension.
Despite the increase in contraceptive use among adolescents during the first sexual contact them, only sixty-three percent of middle school students told to use a condom before. Teenagers who use prescription contraception, delaying to visit their doctor until they become sexually active throughout the year.
According to research, teens who participate in sex education, which gives them knowledge about contraceptive methods, abstinence, sexually transmitted diseases and adolescent participation in discussions to obtain a clearer picture, use of contraceptives and condoms effectively without an increase in sexual activity. Center for Disease Control and Prevention says that the solution to unwanted teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases using barrier contraception and abstinence.