The Problem Of Adolescent Pregnancy - 1800 Words

Danica Tse July 4, 2015 SOC1.1066 Sarah Thompson Social Indicators Rough Draft There are many problems that our society faces today. Despite all the knowledge and technology we have there are still issues that have been in our society for decades. Social indicators that are prevalent today are health care, child welfare, women’s welfare, economics, technology, education, infrastructure and population. The topic of adolescent pregnancy is universal problem in our world today. â€Å"Adolescent pregnancy occurs in all societies, with considerable variation in magnitude and consequences among different countries and regions.† Teenage pregnancy is certainly not unheard of, all nations across the globe have adolescent pregnancies†¦show more content†¦a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier† (as cited in UNFPA, 2013, p.3). Children who are eighteen and under have an adolescent girl- pregnancy. Girls who are pregnant between the ages of ten and nineteen are called adolescent pregnancies. Even though there are two subcategories, most the data represents pregnancies that occur between the age of fifteen and nineteen. Adolescent pregnancies comes with a lot of issues. It is considered a result of mother and child mortality and teenage pregnancies can leave to reduced quality of life, health concerns, and poverty. Many factors contribute to adolescent pregnancy, each nation have variations of factors that involved in this social indicator. In a socioeconomic aspect, â€Å"The link between adolescent childbearing and two aspects of social and economic development, degree of urbanization, measured by the type of place in which young women live (urban or rural), and educational attainment†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (Singh, 1998,p.126) In more developed countries, it is more likely for teenage girls to live in an urban setting and obtain a higher level of education. Those factors result in a lower number of adolescent pregnancies. Typically, more modernized countries do not favor giving birth at a young age because girls need an advancement in education