Prevent teenage pregnancy

Adolescent love

Pregnancy in adolescence poses a risk to the mother and the baby, in addition to having serious psychosocial consequences. The life project is substantially altered if a pregnancy occurs in adolescence.

It must be clear that the adolescent is a sexually active person and that the lack of information can lead him to engage in risky behaviors.

How to prevent teenage pregnancy

The best way to avoid teenage pregnancy is to have a prevention work from different areas. The family is the main agent of information, but it is also the responsibility of the public powers through the education and health system. In schools, more attention should be paid to affective and sexual education and the health system should offer a counseling service on sexual and reproductive health.

Families should treat the issue of sexuality naturally. Sometimes it is complicated by the taboos, fears and doubts that childhood sexuality raises. But if we are aware of these difficulties, we can overcome them more easily.

Children kissing

It is expected that from a certain age, boys and girls show curiosity about reproduction and the differences between boys and girls, women and men. You always have to answer your doubts and questions, using simple language, adapting the explanation to the age and without providing more information than requested.

It is easy to see that children's fantasy is practically limitless. If we avoid answering their questions, they themselves they will find the answers by elaborating theories that in some cases, can fill them with restlessness.

A fluent communication will facilitate that adolescents have the necessary information for their age. It is not about being colleagues since adolescents already have their circle of friends, but about trying to have enough confidence to open spaces for dialogue and reflection.

We must not forget either that to prevent teenage pregnancies, we must facilitate access to contraceptive methods.


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