| Teenage age can be said to be the transitional stage | | | | many changes in our young girls today, most of |
| whereby human being develops that is between | | | | them having their first menstrual periods at very |
| childhood and full adulthood. This also represents the | | | | early age which was not so before meaning that the |
| period of time a boy or girl is biologically an adult but | | | | average age of first pregnancy has been declining |
| not to full maturity emotionally. | | | | and will continue to do so. |
| Pregnancy can be referred to as the process | | | | In this aspect, the first ovulation is irregular until after |
| whereby a female carries live offspring from the time | | | | some time and because of this irregularities in |
| of conception to childbirth. It is also the state of | | | | ovulation and fertile days, our girls are confused |
| being pregnant, that is the period starting from | | | | about their body temperature, remain adamant and |
| conception to the birth of the baby when a woman | | | | unserious towards the dangers of early pregnancy. |
| carries a developing fetus in her womb (Uterus). | | | | Teenage pregnancy carries social stigma in many |
| Having known the full meaning of this two (Teenage | | | | cultures of a developing country and it is mostly |
| age and Pregnancy), Teenage pregnancy then can be | | | | outside of marriage. It brings about high risk of |
| defined as a girl that is under-aged becoming | | | | poverty, illiteracy or lower educational levels and ones |
| pregnant with a baby. In some countries if a girl is | | | | it happens, such girl will ever have a mark that |
| not up to 18 years and become pregnant with a | | | | hinders her progress in future. Well as we go ahead, |
| baby it is called teenage pregnancy though teenage | | | | we will learn how to get this to a stop so that our |
| age differs from one country to the other. | | | | young girls will stop falling victim of this stigma. |
| In our world today, we all noticed that that there are | | | | |