TEEN PREGNANCY

Teen Pregnancy

Teen Pregnancy

Introduction

Teenage pregnancy is that pregnancy that occurs in a woman who is too young to embrace motherhood. Teenage pregnancy is said to be occurred between early adolescence and puberty. The World Health organization (WHO) sets the teens between 10 and 19 years. Most teenage pregnancies are considered unwanted pregnancies, caused by the practice of sex without contraception. In general, the term also refers to pregnant women who have not reached the legal age of maturity which varies for different countries. Teenage pregnancy also includes, a young woman who gets pregnant in a situation of dependency of the family of origin.

Teen pregnancy can affect the life of a teenage girl. There are various implications of teenage pregnancy in terms of social context. Teenage pregnancy is an issue that is prevalent in United States of America more than any other industrialized country. A number of researchers have conducted their research on this issue from a different perspective. The aim of this paper is to review an article critically that is written on the same topic of teenage pregnancy.

Critical Analysis of a Qualitative Study

The study that is selected for this assignment is a qualitative study which is conducted by Spear Hilla. The basic purpose of this study is to discover and talks about the various experiences of pregnancy from the view point of female adolescents. The method that is used to conduct this study is interviews. With the help of interviews, this study attempts to gather the experience of the teenage pregnant girls. The findings that this paper discusses can be compared and related to the results and findings of previous researches and studies.

This study begins with a lengthy introduction section that describes the current level of rate of teenage pregnancy in United States, and shows the trend that ...