TEENAGE PREGNANCY IN GHANA

TEENAGE PREGNANCY IN GHANA



It is of course very factual that teenage pregnancy is the increase in both the urban and rural areas but sometimes some of its causes are very perform to unearthed, because some of these teenage pregnancy you do not know why it should happen. Somebody asks, what at all is teenage pregnancy? It is a pregnancy that involves girls between ages 13-19years of age which was not planned for and as such unwanted. As l know that anything which is not planned for and happens has a lot of hunting repercussions which go lonely may to endanger the persons entire life and future due to this reasons ,I would like to put fourth some for causes and effects so that people who would intend to invite themselves would perhaps desist from it. Some of the causes are listed below;



1. Parents irresponsibility

2. Poverty

3. Lack of education

4. Bad company

5. Peer pressure

6. Lack of parental control

7. Lack of affection

8. Children’s irresponsibility.

More so, some of the effects are listed below also;

1. Rejection

2. Shame

3. Future distraction

4. Lack of focus

5. Destroys education

6. Destroys career

7. Destroys credibility

8. Stress /depression



Tourching on few of the effects and causes listed above would help to broad on the minds of the interested readers to gain more insight about the topic under discursion.



To start irresponsible parents now a days are on the increase and this has stimulated a lot of teenage pregnancy on our young girls full of life and future .Some parents are never ready to carry out their duties as parents on their children to remain under their order .Because of this ,these girls also go to somewhere else to seek for assistance and if they do not fall in the hands of right person ,they end up sleeping with them and the result is pregnancy.

To aid, poverty also pushes our teenage girls to certain life which could endanger their life in so many ways. For example ,a teenage girl needs cloth, shelter, food, book and her school fees and extra classes fees needs to be provided for and paid ,and the parents are not able to provide ,they seek these things some where else and I said f they become victims of teenage pregnancy.

More so, Lack of education also contribute to teenage pregnancy. There are some key issues that are very critical and need to circulate among our teenage girls in other to be aware of it so that when it crop up they would know the way forward as to him they can elude those temptation. For example, the dangers of pre-marital sex, fornication, sexual intercourse without contraception, entering peoples rooms to watch televisions and others etc.

The next item to add is Bad company made by children especially our young girls. Different children or teenage girls are brought up by different parents and also in different background so you could imagine that the way they would behave and react to certain situations would be different. So if some of these children who form the tail part of a group or company are brought up, they can influence their peers due to how they more brought up or according to them geographical environment.

In addition, Lack of parental control is also a key issue that heads young girls to teenage pregnancy. Some parents do not care anything about their children .They have them to behave how they want. When they are going off track, they do not correct them and if this continues for a long time ,the children also get out of hands and behave how they want and they can fall into the temptation of pre-marital sex which can lead to teenage pregnancy.

On the side of the effects, rejection is something you can not take out when our young girls become victims of teenage pregnancy ,their first emotional trauma is rejection. The teenage girl who is pregnant feet deserted by all, particularly her friends .She feels very bad to go in the midst of people because of the state in which they find themselves .

To add to, teenage pregnancy also destroys education of the girls. Because of the stress and trauma that is associated with pregnancy , they are compelled to stop schooling or become a school drop out. When this happens ,some of these young girls would not have the edge to continue their education and hence destruction of their education .

Another thing to add is future destruction .When a teen girl becomes pregnant, most of her future plans crumble and it distract her future .For example a teen girl who wished to become a roman sister has become pregnant distract her future plans ,again somebody would have also wished to keep her virginity tills she gets married has now distracted her future plans for marriage.



Lastly, teenage pregnancy is associated with stress and depression. Now, because this has been a pregnancy that is not wanted, the victims thinks about more than anything day in and day out which causes a great depression which could even head to high blood pressure and suicide .The stress that is also attached to teenage pregnancy is unreasonable because the victim might be too young carrying a baby for mine months .

In a nutshell, the causes , effects and dangers of teenage should be given much education by the government, stakeholders ,resource persons, parents and individuals so as to eliminate plight as a country, community and suburb.