Adolescentes Pregnancy

One of the most complex problems now confronting human reproduction occurs precisely in this period: the teen pregnancy, considered as a biomedical problem with high risk of complications during pregnancy and childbirth, which carries increased morbidity and maternal mortality, perinatal and neonatal care. It also has cultural and psychological implications of high cost with personal, educational, family and social

From the sociocultural perspective, pregnant teens limits their opportunities to study and work, since most of them are forced to drop out of school, leaving the teenager with a very low level of education that does not allow access to decent work necessary to meet at least their basic needs. This situation is exacerbated by their status as single mother that is most of these adolescents, because the partner is usually a teenager or young person who does not take their parental responsibility, leading to a neglect of emotional, economic and social development in the mother and child

Despite this fact, there is little systematic research on the effect of early pregnancy in the dropout rate. There are even fewer studies in the groups of teens has defected before pregnancy. Only a few epidemiological studies point out in their socio-cultural data, incidence of dropouts due to pregnancy