United States that teenage pregnancy and birth levels are too high. Despite dramatic decreases in teenage pregnancy rates and birthrates in the United States over the past decade, this country still has substantially higher levels of adolescent pregnancy, childbearing and abortion than in other Western industrialized countries. Moreover, teenage birthrates have declined less steeply in the Unit...

CONTEXT Maternal age, parity, and socioeconomic class are important determinants of obstetric outcome of pregnancy. Teenage pregnancy constitutes a high risk pregnancy with complications arising from a combination of physiological, anatomical, and socioeconomic factors. OBJECTIVE The objective was to determine the current incidence of all teenage pregnancies and their obstetric outcomes at UN...

Introduction: Teenage pregnancy is a concern from the obstetric and socialeconomical point of views. This study aims to examine it in such a perspective. Aims and Objective: To study the epidemiological aspects and clinical feto-maternal outcome of Teenage pregnancy. Materials and Methods: A Tertiary hospital based prospective case control study with 70 cases and 70 controls, investigated on so...

Previous studies have examined the relationship between education and non-marital pregnancy and between education and teen-pregnancy focusing mainly on how non-marital or teenage pregnancy affects individual human capital and also only rarely considering the intersection of the two groups—and have mainly considered developed countries, especially the US. This paper examines non-marital teenage ...

This paper describes the relationship between school trajectory and incidence of teenage pregnancy. A cross-sectional residence-based questionnaire was applied, interviewing 4,634 youth ages 18 to 24 years, selected through a stratified three-stage sample. For the present study, young people ages 20 to 24 years (65.6%) were chosen, with teenage pregnancy rates of 29.5% for females and 21.4% for...

Contemporary Western society has grown to accept and expect fathers’ involvement in the antenatal period and birthing process of their offspring. Fathers are also recognised to share domestic responsibilities, which encompass taking on an active role in caring for and the upbringing of their children [5,7]. Of the limited research centred on fathers in the setting of teenage pregnancy, it has b...

The study identified the cause and effect of teenage pregnancy among teenagers in Kontagora Local Government Area of Niger State. The study adopted the simple percentage survey research design involving 40 teenagers. The researcher questions were divided into two sections, section A contains the respondent’s personal data and section B contains the subject of the study. Simple percentage rate w...

Background: pregnancy in teenagers is not free of risks. The risk of low birth weight (LBW) and preterm delivery is particularly high among teenagers. LBW is significantly higher in young teenagers aged 13–19 years. Objectives: Evaluation of fetal outcome in teenage pregnancy in Assiut governorate, Egypt. Patients and methods: This study was conducted in the department of obstetrics and gynecol...

In mid-2004, the lead for tackling teenage pregnancy in Lambeth moved from the Council to Public Health in the coterminous Primary Care Trust. Lambeth is a deprived inner-city London borough with a culturally rich and diverse population. The under-18 teenage conception rate had risen by 19% over the 5-year period (1998-2003) following the launch of the National Teenage Pregnancy Strategy. There...