Emotional and psychological characteristics of adolescents:
* Young girls are experiencing feelings of loneliness, low self-confidence to try to supplement with intimate relationships with the opposite sex.
* There is little or no communication with their parents or older sisters, especially when it comes to sex. This leads them to seek and find the opinion and advice from other people his age with his own inexperience and lack of correct patterns.
* There is also an inordinate desire to come into contact with “new experiences”.
* In addition it appears that young people included in special education programs are also more likely to get pregnant in their teens.
* All statistics demonstrates that there is a greater number of pregnancies among adolescents whose families are separated and in single-parent families.
* Among teenage mothers, there is a common factor to all of them: a bad history of academic performance. There is a high rate of early school dropout, especially among younger mothers.
* Up to 60% of young mothers are in families whose parents are separated, and 40% has never lived stable family situation.
Adolescent Pregnancy Poverty1
Teen pregnancy has been an extremely interesting phenomenon, so far the research on teen pregnancy has focused on medical complications during pregnancy, psychosocial causes and consequences of adolescent fertility, demographic changes over time and the consequences on the development of children. But we also need to draw attention to the long-term consequences of adolescent pregnancy on the alternative roles of women and their economic status.
There is a strong association between early pregnancy in a generation and age at pregnancy of the next generation, because it is more likely that a woman who was an early mother is the daughter of a woman who was also a teenage mother. Therefore, if teen pregnancy is prevalent poverty and in turn has economic, social, intergenerational repetition of teenage pregnancy can be an intermediary mechanism in the intergenerational reproduction of poverty.
Self-esteem
Few studies have examined how social values and psychological impact on adolescents and their reproductive health, and even some policy makers may challenge public health if the notions of “self” and “self-confidence are important in developing countries. Yet feelings of insecurity, fear and self doubt can interfere with the proper behavior regarding reproductive health in any culture, FHI research scientist who specializes in adolescent health. If you do not have confidence in themselves, it is possible that young adults do not seek health services playback, or be able to say no to unwanted sex.
A Medical Risk
Pregnancy and childbirth from a woman younger than age 20 have a high risk since they are also various factors that increase the likelihood of complications, including women’s own age, low birth weight and prematurity of the child the child.
Being the first child is another risk factor. Whenever you are more likely to suffer fetal distress during the last stages of pregnancy and childbirth.
Poor nutrition and poor adolescent sleep and health during pregnancy are also risk factors. Also there is often a habitual lack of prenatal care in the young mothers by the frequent denial of pregnancy by the teenager.
How do Pregnancy Occurs?
Adolescent girls who become pregnant tend to face a series of social or psychological barriers that stand to good reproductive health. Pregnancy can be the time when an adolescent self-esteem has its lowest point. This may affect plans for the pregnancy.
As for young married women who become pregnant for the first time, addressing emotional concerns can help to promote reduced-risk pregnancy and happiest. When pregnancy occurs outside marriage or has not been planned, the emotional consequences can be serious. Often, unmarried pregnant teenager faces his dilemma without the support of his family, colleagues or friends. In some cultures, can be neglected or have difficulty getting adequate counseling for pregnancy or prenatal care.
Receiving support from others can be important, pregnant adolescents in its decisions were supported by a parent or other adult, and the few who did not consult their parents, were more satisfied with their decision to continue or discontinue pregnancy than adolescents who did not receive parental support.
Early Pregnancy
In teen pregnancies occur so often poor nutrition of girls, since there is an increase of needs in this age when they are still growing.
It is also an important factor that girls are fed in many cases somewhat arbitrarily and are not adjusted to real needs.
Often have mineral and vitamin deficits that affect not only the mother but the child she carries in her womb.
Infections during pregnancy, and especially urinary tract infection, occur in a greater number of pregnant adolescents.
They are also more frequent in this age of sexually transmitted infections, favored by the circumstances in which they develop their relationships often with a high risk of affecting the fetus and very serious consequences for this, even more than for the same mother.
Another result in the pregnant teenagers is bleeding during the third trimester of pregnancy due to premature detachment of the placenta. The risk of preterm labor and fetal death in utero thus increases considerably.
The cause should be sought in the hormonal adolescent immaturity and incomplete development in the uterus also at this age.
Conflicting Part
In this type of pregnancy is an increased frequency of premature delivery and low birth weight children at birth.
While current techniques to assist children have developed remarkably, it remains clear that the low weight is a major cause of death and serious disabilities in early childhood.
Among adolescents who give birth, the submission of the child “Breech” when the birth occurs in high numbers. The birth of this form, as is known, carries some increased risk of suffering by the child.
Not being in the adolescent completed the maturation of the skeleton of her pelvis during labor are common situations in which the fetal head is not able to pass through the bony canal which leads from the uterus to the outside. So often it is essential to the practice of cesarean intervention which, in effect, takes place more often in teens than in older women.
After Birth
The mortality in births among children of mothers under 17 triples between mothers aged 20 to 29 years.
It is also much higher rate of brain injuries in children as a result of trauma suffered during birth or being born into conditions of prematurity.
For many researchers are more worrying factors of psychological nature, social and educational.
According to these authors, these children have, sooner or later, major problems, need special assistance, school repetition and completion of studies at older ages than other children.
They are children with aggression, rebellion, and little impulse control. The causes are unknown although they have suggested the lack of mother-child interaction, the absence of the father figure or socioeconomic problems.
Conclusion
Doing this work I realized once again as a society in which we can change this, because as we know society is composed of small communities which determine the actions of each individual as each of these form the basis of our thoughts, this is very difficult to change but not impossible, we have the tools, let us set the example that a girl was never a relationship of trust within his family, and over time began to notice in children in a more adult, but had no one around to direct it, telling her how to prevent pregnancy, this vacuum could be filled in the presence of a sexuality workshop at school, or educational information and educational media communication, or simply a friend that if you had an open and openly with their parents with any of these alternatives can prevent teen pregnancy which I think is very damaging to the lives of these girls because in some ways delayed or even delete all your goals and ideals preventing a better future, it is clear that a percentage of these successful climb out of this situation either by some external support or simply through their own efforts to demonstrate that a child can succeed if one wants, is that one should put more emphasis because it’s not one are two, to build a better future for both.
I think it is in the hands of all those who make Chile that this situation will change, not closed the doors of college to small mothers, or throwing them from home, or discrimination, but because they bring life to embrace them at a time is not suitable reason to treat them as criminals.
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