Basic information on teen pregnancy

1. Prepared by
Janet C. Gaddi RMT, RN, RM, LPT, MAN
TEENAGE PREGNANCY

2. What is Teenage Pregnancy?
•pregnancy is the condition of being pregnant of
adolescence aged 10 to 19.
•is usually understood to occur in a female who has not
completed her core education- secondary school
•has few or no marketable skills
•is financially dependent upon her parents and or continues
to live at home
•is often mentally immature and unprepared
Medical Dictionary

7. • 14% of Filipino girls
between the ages of 15
to 19 are either pregnant
with their first child, or are
already mothers.
• Worldwide, WHO
estimates some 3 million
girls aged 15-19 undergo
unsafe abortions.

8. • The survey also reveals
that one in five (19
percent) young adult
Filipino women age 18 to
24 years had initiated
their sexual activity
before age 18.

9. • The proportion of young adult women reporting first
intimate sexual act before age 18 is 22 percent for rural
areas and 17 percent for urban areas.
• 2% had sexual activity before the age of 15

10. • 38% of our youth are already in a live-in arrangement.
• A rise in the number of teenage pregnancies in the country
from 1,700 cases in 2014 to 1,986 cases in 2015.

11. CAUSES OF TEENAGE PREGNANCY
1. Early marriage
2. Adolescent sexual behavior- alcohol and drugs
3. Lack of sex education
4. Peer pressure
5. Sexual abuse-rape

12. CAUSES OF TEENAGE PREGNANCY
6. Poverty
7. Exposure to abuse, violence and family strife at home
8. Low self-esteem/desperation
9. Low educational ambitions and goals
10. Media, social network

21. • House Bill 4742 and senate Bill 1482- filed by Laguna 3rd
District Rep. Sol Aragones and Sen. Risa Hontiveros- propose
the development of a national program of action and
investment plan for the prevention of teenage pregnancy in
the country.

28. How to be safe

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