Pregnancy Problems in Teen Girls

Though, the age of women is enduring to decrease, aspregnant .The pregnancy rate for adolescents 13 to 19
younger women look for to conclude pregnancies.years of age fell 19 percent from 116 per 1,000 in 1991
Statistics are instructive that the average age of thoseto 95.3 in 1997, reversing a 12 percent rise from 1986
receiving abortions is dropping from 19 to 17. Teento 1994.From 1995 to 1997, the pregnancy rate for 13-
abortion facts also expose that though the teento 19-year-olds decreased in 41 of the 43 reported
pregnancy rate has declined in the United States overgeographic areas for which age-specific data were
the last ten years, the percentages have really greateravailable.
than before. Recent information are reporting that overDuring 1995 to 1997, the pregnancy rate declined by
50% performed annually are on women under the age11.5 percent among females less than 15 years of age,
of twenty-five with the ages of eighteen and nineteenby 10.8 percent among females 15 to 17 years of age,
accounting for the highest number performed.and by 5.9 percent among females 16 to 19 years of
A disorder called Post Traumatic Stress is diseaseage .
millions of teenagers who are not psychologicallyFor each year from 1995 to 1997, the pregnancy rate
steady enough to survive with the trauma associatedfor females 15 to 19 years of age was approximately
with an unplanned pregnancy, life-altering decisions, and2.6 times that of females 15 to 17 years of age, and
the devastation of life. After the surgical procedure,the rate for females less than 15 years of age was
guiltiness, shame, inconsistent behaviors, and substanceapproximately one ninth that of females 14 to 17 years
abuse, even suicide, can be end result.of age. From 1995 to 1997, the national number of
Pregnancy, birth, and abortion rates among teenagerspregnancies among females 14 to 19 years of age
in the United States have turn down over the pastdeclined by 3.3 percent. In 1996, the pregnancy rate for
decade but at a standstill remain a widespread publicfemales 15 to 19 years of age in the United States
health issue.was 83.8 per 1,000 compared to
Reasons for the decline include increased motivationPREGNANCY RISKS AND OUTCOMES
of adolescence to achieve higher levels of education,95 percent of adolescence believes that if they were
the availability of widespread sexuality education inoccupied in a pregnancy they would stay in school; in
schools, leading to immature people's knowledge aboutreality, 72 percent eventually complete high school 74.
contraception, more effective contraceptive use, and50 percent of adolescence thinks that if they were
improved ability to discuss contraceptive practice; andoccupied in a pregnancy they would marry the mother
greater community sustain for services related to bothfather; in actuality, 82 percent of teenage births are to
pregnancy and disease prevention among teenagers.unmarried teens75. 26 percent of adolescence thinks
PREGNANCYthat they would need benefit to support a child; in
Although pregnancy rates among teenagers havereality 57 percent receive public support to cover the
steadily turned down in the past decade, the Unitedcost of delivery and 26 percent of teen mothers
States continues to have the highest teenagerreceive public support by their early twenties77. 32
pregnancy rates among industrialized nations.percent of adolescence says they would believe an
Each year in United States, 800,100 to 900,100abortion; in reality, 52 percent of pregnancies to
adolescents 19 years of age or younger becomeunmarried teens end in abortion.