Attitude And Perception Of Teenage Mothers Regarding Teenage Pregnancy
Chapter one
Preface
Background of the study
Teenage gestation, also known as adolescent gestation, occurs when a girl under the age of 20 becomespregnant.Pregnancy may do after the inception of ovulation, which may do before the first menstrual period( menarche) but is more common after the inception of ages. The first period typically occurs around the age of 12 or 13 by well- nourished ladies( WHO 2018).
Teenagers who are pregnant suffer numerous of the same gestation- related challenges as other women. There are redundant issues for children under the age of 15, since they’re less likely to be physically progressed to support a successful gestation or deliver birth. pitfalls for ladies aged 15 – 19 are connected with socioeconomic variables rather than natural impacts of age. The pitfalls of low birth weight, early labor, anemia, andpre-eclampsia are linked to natural age, since they’re seen in adolescent deliveries indeed when other threat factors, similar as access to antenatal care.
Teenage gravidity are linked to societal factors similar as poor educational attainment andpoverty.Teenage gestation is a typical circumstance each around the world. According to World Health Organization( WHO) data, over sixteen million teenagers aged 15 to 19 give birth each time, with the maturity of these births taking place in developing countries( World Health Organization, 2018). The tendency seems to be accelerating. In Sierra Leone, where early marriage is encouraged by custom, teen gestation reckoned for 40 of motherly mortality. According to some pens, a teenage gestation happens when a youthful girl is between the periods of 13 and 19 times old and her reproductive organs and system aren’t fully formed.
This issue is defined as a societal dilemma in which adult actions and conditioning similar as sexual intercourse, gravidity, and fathering are performed by a person who isn’t yet an grown-up due to her age and experimental state. Teenage gestation is a public health issue that has been honored as a concern for youth, families, and society as a whole. It’s a serious ultramodern socioeconomic challenge that all nations throughout the globe are dealing with. Teenage gestation is entering further attention in both developed and underdeveloped nations. This is due to the youthful age at which teenagers engage in sexual exertion as a consequence of an unwanted gestation and the implicit problems( DorisO., EkpoanwanE. & DavidA.2015).
similar gravidity jeopardize both the mama and the child. Prematurity, low birth weight, and birth traumas are all pitfalls for babe. Morbidities similar as dammed labor, obstetric fistula, and breakdown may do in the mama . likewise, early parenting leaves teenagers with little knowledge, education, and communication about reproductive health issues. Dropping out of academy, social demarcation, and stigmatization are some of the social and cerebral issues connected with adolescent gestation. The pregnant adolescent may feel despairing and, as a result, suicidal( DorisO., EkpoanwanE. & DavidA.2015). numerous variables have been linked to the frequence of adolescent gestation. Poor maternal supervision as a consequence of broken homes and inadequate or virtuality of contraception; exposure to pornographic flicks and a lack of coitus education are exemplifications. thus it’s upon this premise that this study is set to examine the station And Perception Of Teenage maters Regarding Teenage gestation.
Statement of Problem
Health and social problems are associated with teenage gestation. To forestall these, strategies preliminarily mentioned were resolved by the WHO( 2014) aimed at perfecting the reproductive health of youthful people including adolescents. Consequent on these strategies, interventions by public and private associations have been accepted to reduce the problem. Despite these interventions which include access to reproductive health services, it’s observed encyclopedically that teenage gestation still remains a public health problem( Coster,D.,( 2015)).
In Nigeria, statistics from the National Population Commission( NPC) shows that the proportion of teenage gestation has remained at 23 between 2008 and 2013( NPC & ICF, 2013; NPC & ICF, 2009). Although in Nigeria, the loftiest proportions are set up in the North Western( 36) and North Eastern( 34) corridor of the country, in the south with fairly lower proportion, the rate of teenage gestation is loftiest in Cross River State( 17) as compared with other southern countries in the southern geopolitical zone( NPC & ICF, 2013). It was further proved that the rate of teenage gestation is about 32 in the pastoral areas and 10 in the civic areas. This study setting is a pastoral community and numerous teenage girls are formerly maters . In view of their places, parents are anticipated to be laboriously involved in the process of forestallment of teenage gestation through supervision and comforting of their children wards. Although the news of teenage son’s gestation is unwelcome to parents. Some authors set up that maters described their passions performing from the discovery of the gestation of their adolescent daughters as ruinous. The news was delicate to believe, drink or accept. To the stylish of our knowledge, the perspectives of parents on teenage gestation in the study area haven’t been explored. Grounded on these gaps, the experimenters decided to study the perception and stations of parents towards teenage gestation.
Ideal Of The Study
The main focus of this study is to examine the perception and stations towards teenage gestation. Specifically it seek
1. To examine the causes of unwanted gestation among teenage girls
2. To examine the effect of unwanted gestation on teenage girls
3. To examine if parents perception towards unwanted gestation is negative?
4. To proffer results on how to reduce unwanted gestation among teenage girls
Exploration Questions
The exploration is guided by the following question
1. What are the causes of unwanted gestation among teenage girls?
2. What are the effect of unwanted gestation on teenage girls?
3. Does parents perception towards unwanted gestation is negative?
4. What are the results on how to reduce unwanted gestation among teenage girls
. Significance Of The Study
The study will be significance to parents, counsellor and adolescents. To Parents, the study will enlighten them on the need to ameliorate parenthood style and produce a cordial relationship between them and their teenage girls have vim addresses on sexual education. To academy counsellors and preceptors, the study will enable them to gather the girl scholars and educate them about adulterous coitus and the consequences of unwanted gestation as this will help reduce its circumstances. The study also will add to the body of literature in this area, serve as reference material for pupil and experimenters in this field while furnishing occasion for farther studies in this area.
compass of the study
The compass of this study borders on parents perception about unwanted gestation among teenage girls. The study is demarcated to Delta State in South- South region of Nigeria.
Limitation of the study
The study encountered colorful militating factors which posed as a limitation similar as
fiscal constraint – inadequate fund tends to stymie the effectiveness of the experimenter in sourcing for the applicable accoutrements , literature or information and in the process of data collection( internet, questionnaire and interview).
Time constraint – The experimenter will contemporaneously engage in this study with other academic work. This accordingly will cut down on the time devoted for the exploration work.
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