Pregnant teenagers

To date, an acute social problem is early motherhood. There are many reasons for the number of pregnant women under the age of eighteen each year, including the social vulnerability of children and adolescents, the lack of awareness among adolescents about contraception and family relations, the low cultural level of development of modern youth, and so on. All this leads to the fact that the age of young mothers is getting younger. Increasingly began to register pregnant teenagers under the age of 14 years.

Adolescence is a difficult period in the life of a child who ceases to be a child, but has not yet fully become an adult able to make such serious decisions, such as the birth of a child. In addition, pregnant teenagers, who are not yet physiologically and psychologically ready for such a complex process as bearing, giving birth and raising a child, can not fully realize the seriousness of this situation.

Often, pregnant teenagers, girls 15-16 years old, after learning about their situation, remain alone, because the parents do not support (especially if it is an antisocial family), the father of the child usually disappears or refuses to recognize his paternity, adults condemn and deny In the help. However, we must not forget that pregnant teenagers, due to their lability of the psyche, can not alone cope with such psycho-emotional stress, and this can end tragically.

Decide whether to abandon a pregnancy or to have an abortion (if the time limit allows) should all the family members, you can not leave a teenage girl alone with this issue. If the family does not support, and among the environment there are no people who could help, pregnant teenagers today can apply for social protection and support in special centers, which in Russia began to appear not so long ago. They provide both medical assistance and psychological support. There, an examination of the gynecologist, determination of the period of pregnancy and childbirth, examination of related specialists and work with social services and lawyers is conducted.

However, the problem of early pregnancy does not solve it. And it is necessary to solve it with the help of state social programs in the field of gender policy, as well as through conducting explanatory conversations with adolescents about methods of contraception, the work of a psychologist, both group and individual on the topics of relationships between men and women, and family relations. Unfortunately, the culture of youth today is such that many teenagers have no idea how normal relations between men and women should look. All that is presented in modern media, advertising, films and the Internet forms in the minds of adolescents an inadequate attitude towards sex. Adolescents enter into sexual relations, starting from 11-12 years old, without fully realizing the essence of the issue, often ignoring contraception. Everything that the teachers say because of teenage stubbornness and the desire to be "as adults" is perverted.

The best way to prevent early pregnancy is the correct sexual education of children, starting from the preschool age, it is necessary to form the right attitude to the opposite sex and explain "where do the children come from." Because to many teenagers this question remains unknown until they learn from their own experience. But the process itself is known to all schoolchildren of all ages.

But, if everything has already happened and it is impossible to return to the past, it is necessary to try to ensure that the child receives proper attention and education, and most importantly, that he has loving parents.