Teenage pregnancy: Impact on the mother from her surroundings

Teenage pregnancies have been seen as a problem in North America and some European countries. This isn’t the case everywhere. Some countries welcome and rejoice of teenage pregnancy because it is sign of fertility and a long life. Teen mothers in Canada now have plenty of choices to choose from once they become pregnant. They can keep the child, give it for adoption or have an abortion. Either one of those choices will have an effect on the mother one way or another. The mother will face many types of influences or pressures from her surrounding, whether it is from her parents, her partner, her friends, or simply the society in general. Her own values, culture and maturation will have a great impact on the decision she will make. School and employment will have quite the impact on the mother’s financial problems. School is also one of the key emplacements that can make an enormous impact on the number of teen mothers and the governments all across the world are getting more involved to have better sex education for children. Many things happen to a teen mother emotionally, financially, health wise and only she can decide whether to keep the child or not and to live with the responsibilities that it will bring on her life.

Teenage pregnancy has hit an all-time low since they first started collecting data in 1974. The decline has gone from 53.9 per 1000 pregnancies in 1974 to 32.1 in 2003. In comparison with the United States of America and the United Kingdom we have a very low rate of teenage pregnancies. (McKay, 2006) Canada’s teen pregnancies are half those of the U.S.A. as well as England and Wales even though their rates have also being reducing. (National Post, 2008) Ontario is one of the provinces that have a pregnancy rate that is lower than the national average, which is of 27.4 per 1000 for teens aged 15-19. Québec (34.7 per 1000 pregnancies) the North and the prairies all had a higher