Their education will take a back seat as pregnancy issues will first lead to poor academic performance, school absenteeism before they become school dropouts. These girls very rarely return to school after they have given birth, which means that their education level remains at a low standard.

Results: The factors contributing to teenage pregnancy included: lack of school fees, lack of parental care, communication and supervision, poverty, peer pressure, non-use of contraceptives, desire for a child, forced marriage, low educational level and need for dowries.

A daughter’s adolescent pregnancy and birth might alter her mother’s parenting, for example, by diminishing the mother’s ability to monitor her own children, by increasing a mother’s acceptance of early non-marital childbearing, by reducing a mother’s achievement expectations for her other children, and by compelling a …

In addition to its other effects, teen parenting is likely to hinder a child’s social and emotional wellbeing. When a baby is born to a teenage mother, he is likely to have more difficulty acquiring cognitive and language skills as well as social and emotional skills like self-control and self-confidence.

Teenage births result in health consequences; children are more likely to be born pre-term, have lower birth weight, and higher neonatal mortality, while mothers experience greater rates of post-partum depression and are less likely to initiate breastfeeding [1, 2].

low birth weight/premature birth. anemia (low iron levels) high blood pressure/pregnancy-induced hypertension, PIH (can lead to preeclampsia) a higher rate of infant mortality (death)

PopCom estimated that P33 billion is lost due to teenage pregnancies every year. Philippine poverty incidence is at 21.6% as of 2017 and 21% as of the 1st semester of 2018. “In terms of per capita gross national income (GNI) will be similar to Malaysia [by 2040],” Pernia said.

The foremost concerns are the health complications. Babies born to mothers younger than 20-24, the most reproductively viable ages, have a 50 percent higher chance of dying during or after birth. They are more likely to be born premature or weigh little and have life-long health risks.

In 2017, a total of 194,377 babies were born to women aged 15–19 years, for a birth rate of 18.8 per 1,000 women in this age group. This is another record low for U.S. teens and a drop of 7% from 2016. Birth rates fell 10% for women aged 15–17 years and 6% for women aged 18–19 years.

The sociological perspective emphasizes that our social backgrounds influence our attitudes, behaviors, and life chances. The chances of committing even an individual act such as suicide depend to some degree on the group backgrounds from which we come.

People tend to accept their social world unquestioningly, as something “natural.” But the sociological perspective enables us to see society as a temporary social product, created by human beings and capable of being changed by them as well.

Culture consists of the beliefs, behaviors, objects, and other characteristics common to the members of a particular group or society. Through culture, people and groups define themselves, conform to society’s shared values, and contribute to society.

Often people are afraid that recognizing differences will divide people from each other. However, learning about cultural differences can actually bring people closer together, because it can reveal important parts of each other’s lives. It can show us how much we have in common as human beings.

Society, according to what we know so far, is any group of people who tend to share the same region, biological and cultural characteristics and have the same system of behavior and action. Therefore, society cannot separate from its own culture simply because the culture makes it what it is.

So, what are some examples of cultural diversity? Cultural diversity looks like this: In A Workplace: Having a multilingual team, having a diverse range of ages working together, having policies that are vocally against discrimination, etc.

As this definition suggests, there are two basic components of culture: ideas and symbols on the one hand and artifacts (material objects) on the other. The first type, called nonmaterial culture, includes the values, beliefs, symbols, and language that define a society.