INTRODUCTION

Teenage is a person who are relating to or intended for young people between the age of 13 and 19. Pregnancy means the period from conception to birth. After the egg is fertilized by a sperm and then implanted in the lining of the uterus, it develops into a fetus. Pregnancy usually last 40 weeks, beginning from the first day of the woman's last menstrual period, and is divided into three trimesters, each lasting 3 months. So, here we introduce that teenage pregnancies is teenage or underaged girl (within the aged of 13 to 19 ) becoming pregnant.
Our purpose is to encourage people or community to become more aware about teen pregnancies and to remove their prejudices against the victims. It is because the teenagers actually are not really wanted for the pregnant. So, we are here to overcome the problem about teenage pregnancies that are become increasing nowadays.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Implications of Teenage Pregnancies


There are many implications of teenage pregnancies:

Pregnancies can create an emotional crisis resulting in feelings of shame and fear to teenagers. Their emotion will be effected and they will feel unsecured about this matter.

People around will underestimate them and mocking them because get pregnant at this age.Some of them will be isolated and be hated with their neighbourhoods.

Pregnancies also can interrupts teenagers in their school,educations and other plans.As we can see,teenagers is still young.It is the best time for them to build their bright future through educations.However,if they got pregnant suddenly,their education will be neglected and they seem to have problems to manage their future ife.

Not just that,there is a greater risk for teenagers whose have been pregnant at this age.This is because,their bodies have not yet fully physically developed.Plus,they still have poor nutrition.In other words,they are weak and not growing enough.Then how come they can survive to pregnant and give birth.The pregnancies will effect teenagers body system.

Teenagers generally will suffer complications such as severe anemia and hypertension due to pregnancies.As we know,teenagers prone to be out of control and they can't manage their emotions perfectly.So they will easier got hypertension and depression.

Plus,the baby may be born premature because of lack of nutrition.The worst is the baby can suffer from mental retardation or brain damage due to teenagers emotion while they pregnant.
By : Nurul Farahin binti Rasid

2 comments:

  1. On May 31, 2009, The Star reported the news of the "Decomposed body of baby found in drain"

    Around five months after that, the news highlighted "Dead baby found among trash", also reported by The Star (October 6, 2009)

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  2. it's such an unpleasent news to hear.
    that is one of the implications of teenage pregnancies.
    when they got pregnant and don't know what to do,they will get rid of their babies on such place.

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