Pregnancy in Adolescents in Mexico, Data versus Social Panic?

Noemi Ehrenfeld Lenkiewicz
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Noemi Ehrenfeld Lenkiewicz: Department of Health Care, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico

Global Journal of Reproductive Medicine, 2017, vol. 1, issue 3, 52-54

Abstract: Adolescent pregnancy is a complex condition in which different social factors take part, such as economic living conditions, social background, and cultural issues concerning motherhood, education, and health outcomes of an early pregnancy. While public policies are directed to female population, there is no one official programme that addresses male sexuality and reproductive behaviours. Despite the statistics show a diminishing of specific fertility rate, there is a general social alarm strongly reinforced by the media in relation of adolescent pregnancy. Qualitative findings enrich statistical data, and show that in Mexican culture to become a mother is the most desirable condition for women, as adolescents report. Meanwhile, sexual activity before marriage or being single, pregnant or already an adolescent mother is still morally condemned by society. Different comprehensive policies should be designed and implemented in order to strongly support education attendance of adolescent women.

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Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.19080/GJORM.2017.01.555562

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