Abstract
The focus of the 2013 World Population Day on July 11, was on “Adolescent Pregnancy”. This indicates that teenage pregnancy has global effects and implications. It has become a global problem that need be tackled through multi-sectoral approach. However, in Nigeria statistics reveals that this is a serious problem to our development as a country. This is because the relationship between teenage pregnancy and education goes in both directions. Teenagers who become pregnant are more likely to drop out of school and the teenagers that drop out of school are more likely to become pregnant. Again, the children of teen mothers are less likely to graduate from tertiary institutions (post-secondary institutions) than the children of those whose parents were older as at the time of childbearing. However, education in several ways can assist in the reduction of teenage pregnancy. This argument is anchored on the logic that education can confront and curb the various socio-economic problems that produce the fertile social conditions that aid teenage pregnancy. The paper advocates that a multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral approach should be adopted in tackling this social and ethical menace that have the potentials to disrupt and distort the nation’s developmental frameworks. DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2014.v4n3p41
Highlights
To become a parent, at any given age have the capacity of generating a life – altering experience
The literature showed through these searches focus more and basically on the educational attainment of adolescent mothers and the means through which the negative consequences of early parenthood can be curbed or reduced
There was no prevalent on adolescent fathers in the literature. This suggests that the negative consequences of early parenthood have more impact on the teenage mothers
Summary
At any given age have the capacity of generating a life – altering experience. Teenage parents or students with children, as they are usually referred to in some literature, are parents that fall within the age bracket of thirteen (13) and nineteen (19) More often, these students drop out of school due mostly to pressures they experience, which include stigmatization that is limited with early parenting; isolation from their peers; and lack of the necessary support from their family, friends, schools, social service agencies and other organizations. These students drop out of school due mostly to pressures they experience, which include stigmatization that is limited with early parenting; isolation from their peers; and lack of the necessary support from their family, friends, schools, social service agencies and other organizations These factors emerge because of the cultural and normative values that teenage pregnancy tends to breach. Effort is made to show that there are social and ethical variables that could help provide solution to the problem of teenage pregnancy
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