Teenage Pregnancy And Adolescent Pregnancy

Adolescent pregnancy is viewed as a high-risk situation due to the serious health risks that this creates for the mother, the baby, and society at large. Describe various risk factors or precursors to adolescent pregnancy. Research community and state resources devoted in adolescent pregnancy and describe at least two of these resources. Research the teen pregnancy rates for the last 10 years for your state and community. Has this rate increased or decreased? Discuss possible reasons for an increase or decrease.

Teenage or adolescent pregnancy is the pregnancy by a female between age 13 to 19, which is assumed to occur in a girl who hasn’t accomplished her fundamental education, secondary school, has few or no merchantable skills, and also monetarily dependent upon her parents to live at home and is psychologically juvenile. For a teenager to finding out she is pregnant, particularly when the pregnancy is was not expected and not wanted, will definitely put huge stress on a young woman and her family. Though, once it has happened, no other option than to support the teenage girl in order to make sensible choice for her at the time of the pregnancy. A different emotion comes with pregnancy such as confusion and fear, whereas others may feel happy and excited. Adolescent parents and their children signify populations at increased risk for medical, psychological, developmental, and social problems.

One most important high risk pregnancy factor associated to both mother and baby is inadequate prenatal care. Teenage pregnancy is considered high risk, couple with the fact that many receive less prenatal care than an older mother. Suitable and proper prenatal care can lessen the dangers of medical problems that can be related wi...

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...d physical defects such as Intellectual disability, heart defects, and cleft palate, defects of the face, fingers, arms, and legs. Illegal drugs tend to have behavioral problems on the baby such as hyperactivity, miscarriage, stillbirth, feeding problems, withdrawal and poor growth on the baby.

Teenage pregnancy rates in Georgia between 15 to 17-years-old were decline for 42 percent over an eleven-year period according to ongoing monitoring of Georgia’s teen pregnancy rates by the Department of Human Resources (2006). From 1994-2004, the teen pregnancy rate among non-Hispanic African-Americans declined 51 percent. The teen pregnancy rate for non-Hispanic whites went down 48 percent. While the number of pregnancies among Hispanic teens has increased from 233 in 1994 to 964 in 2004, exact pregnancy rates are unknown due to lack of data on the growth of this population.