Socio-cultural aspect of teenage pregnancy: toward formulation of mitigation strategies

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Thesis
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Subject
Teenage Pregnancy 
Abstract
This study is primarily focused on describing the association of sociocultural concepts to teenage pregnancy taken from Filipinos' perspective specifically analyzed as to the influence of respondents' attitude, peer and parental communication. This was attained utilizing a descriptive research design. Participants in the study were 150 teenagers’ mothers who are (1) aged 19 years and below, (2) either a pregnant teenager and/or presenting a child. The group of teenagers who are currently and previously pregnant regardless of the number of pregnancy. The study was conducted at Mexico Pampanga. Survey questionnaire was utilized in data gathering which was subjected to validation and reliability tests obtaining o.84. The questionnaire was divided into three consisting of these sociocultural backgrounds of the respondents including family living companion, household income, and educational attainment. The second part includes questions about t the respondents' attitude towards sexuality, pregnancy, and motherhood while the third part highlights the peer and parent communication asking questions that are focused on its roles to teenage pregnancy. The questions are commonly answerable by agreeing or disagreeing to the specific values, traditions and culture. Based on the findings of the study, the researchers have drawn several conclusions: (1) teen girls are more likely to get pregnant if they have limited or no guidance from their parents; (2) one of the r reason for becoming pregnant among teenagers is lack of good female role models in the family (3) those mother who has lower level of education were mostly to have teenage pregnant daughter; (4) father involvement is considered necessary in teen pregnancy prevention and preventing other adolescent risk behaviors; (5) teenagers who are uneducated about sex are more likely to have an unintended pregnancy; (6) the greater the income of the family, the greater the risk of having teenage pregnancy; (7) the immature and irresponsible behavior arising due to complex teenage psychology is another important cause of teenage pregnancies; (8) decreasing the number of sexually active teenagers 2 and providing knowledge about contraceptives to those sexually active ones would b mitigate the incidence of teenage pregnancy and giving birth; (9) behavior and attitude of the youth change not because they are losing what some would loosely refer tot as "moral values" but because these do evolve through time as the environment and contexts do; (10) parents have discomfort discussing these topics with their children and b even discourage conversations on these issues. On the basis of the conclusions, the following are room target messages at teen boys, not just at the girls; (3) get the whole community involved; 4) make condoms widely available; and (5) encourage mentoring. 
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