TEENAGE PREGNANCY

Teenage Pregnancy is one of the major factors that affects population growth in the Philippines. It is considered as one of the major problems of the government is facing of today. It is the commonest problems faced by teens in the several nations, has been the issue of teenage pregnancy. But as of resent, the Philippines had slowly increased its number of teenage pregnancy, resulting in the Philippines being the top country with the most teenage pregnancy among the six major southeast asian countries. I think that many of our youth are clueless today on sexual intercourse, leading to unwanted or unplanned pregnancies. And the teenage pregnancy is continue growing and really affects our economic status. Wen can prevent teenage pregnancy by educating the youth about sexual and reproductive health even in non-formal education settings and normalizing respectful dialogue on the topic providing right based measures to help pregnant girls and young mothers continue and finish their education. Create Vocational Training Oppurtunities instead

Causes of Teenage Pregnancy:
-Poverty
-Gender inequalities
-Gender-based violence
-Substance used                                                                    -Poor access to contraceptives and issue with termination of pregnancy.
-Low inconsistent and inconnect of contraceptives

Prevention of Teenage Pregnancy:                           -Learn to respect yourself
-Lay out the consequences
-Have the sex talk
-Dont make sex a taboo subject                            -Vocational Training Oppurtunities

Author: Hanns Henrique Almarez