Dr.

Arcadio Santos National High School

Km. 15 East Services Rd. San Martin de Poress Parañaque City

Common Experiences of Grade 11 Teenage Moms Endrolled at Senior High of Grade 11 of Dr.

Arcadio Santos National High School

A Concept Paper

In partial Fullfilment of the Requirement in English for Academic and Professional Purposes

Submitted by:

Ricafort, Carla Lacaran, Trisha

Daloso, Trina Argarin, , Helen

Barrion, Joshua Cortes, Celine

Bongon, Daniel

Submitted to:

M.s Arlene A. Bulala

Teacher
 Chapter I

Introduction

The aim of Teenage Pregnancy, also known as adolescent pregnancy, is pregnancy in a

female under the age of 20. Pregnancy occur with sexual intercourse after the start of ovulation

period (menarche) but usually occurs after the onset periods.

There were nearly 250,000 babies born in 2014 to teen moms, according to the U.S

Department of Health & Human Services about 77% of these pregnancies were unplanned. A

teenage pregnancy can change the course of a young mom’s life. It puts her in a place where

she’s responsible not only for herself, but also for another human. Carrying a baby and becoming

a mom not only creates physical changes. Women also go through mental changes. Young moms

face added stress from sleepless nights, arranging child above, making doctor appointments and

attempting to finish high school. While not all teenage moms are affected greatly by mental and

physical changes after child birth, it’s important to reach out to others and seek professional

health.

According to the Journal Pediatrics studied more than 6,000 Canadian women, ranging in

age from adolescents to adult. The researchers found that girls ranging from 15 to 19 experienced

post partum depression at a rate that was twice as high as women aged 25 and older. Another

study reported that teen mothers face significant levels of stress that can then lead to increased

mental health concerns. In addition to higher rates of postpartum depression, teenage mothers

have higher rates of depression.

Therefore this study is aimed to answer the following questions.

 1. What are the profile of teenage moms at DASNHS?
2. What are their experiences of being a teenage mom?
3. What are their common experiences?

Definition of Terms

1. Menarche - the first occurrence of menstruation., specifically this is used in explaining how a

pregnancy occurs.

2. Post partum depression - type of depression you may get after you have a baby. It can start any

time during your baby’s first year, but it’s most common for you to start to feel its effects during

the first 3 weeks after birth. This word’s used to show what are the most common mental illness

that a teenage mom after having a newborn baby faces.

3. Adolescent - in the process of developing from a child into an adult. Specifically used to target

the teenage moms to . ei, adolescent mom

4. Teenage - denoting a person between 13 and 19 years old. This word is specifically used to

target the teen that have been pregnant and are pregnant, is used to tell the general population

within it’s age boundary.

5. Pregnancy - the condition or period of being pregnant. Used to describe the young women

teens that have carried an infant in their uterus and also those have delivered it.

6. Sexual intercourse – sexual contact between individuals involving penetration, used in the

study as an extension word to explain what ages are the most common for girls to do this.

7. Poverty-Sickened – extremely poor, used specifically to explain the general population of

people that are commonly facing the challenge of teenage pregnancy.

8. Sex education – Is high quality teaching and learning about topics related to sex and sexuality,

one of the most important education that developing countries lack that leads to pregnancy.

9. Young women – Sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women, used in the

study to categorize the general population of people that face the challenge of being a teenage

pregnant caused by poverty.

10. Poverty – the state of being extremely poor, used in the study to categorize the most common

population in a country to face most struggles in the society.

Chapter II

Review of Related Literature

According to statistics done by the National Demographic Health Survey (NDHS 2017),

pregnancy in Philippines has declined to 47 births per 100 women aged 15-19, however even

though the figures have declined, the real numbers of young women getting pregnant is still high

(Crisistomo S., 2019). According to another survey done by NDHS, the most common age of

sexual initiation on young adult women were the age before 18.

Teenage pregnancy and motherhood varies by education and region, unfortunately it’s

more common to those with less education and to those in the poverty-stricken areas (NDHS

2017). Lacking in sex education is the most common cause of teenage pregnancy in most

developing countries (Jolley, M. A. 2018). Because the ones that came from poor community that
receive little to no sex education, other countries’ teen pregnancy are declining, in Philippines it

is rising.

Negative thoughts may be related to being poor mental health and well-being, grade 10,

43% of girls are feeling sad or hopeless. This could lead them to keep problems and having

secrets doing these could lead to some serious cases like teen pregnancy.

Teenagers are more prone to anemia, pretern delivery and low birth weight than those

women aged 20-24. This indicated that families well being needs improvement to delay first

pregnancy to reduce complications that occur to teenage mom and her baby (Pardey Gk,…

2009). Complications in teenage moms aging 15-19 die due to not being physically capable of

the parenthood. The estimated amount of death due to this is 70,000 and this numbers are higher

on the developing countries (Mayor S. 2009).

The researchers conclude that teen age pregnancy is just a cycle. Poverty cause young

women’s pregnancy and this causes poverty, so on and so forth. Poverty is both cause and

consequence of teenage pregnancy, a cycle that occur mostly in developing countries (Ayles C.

2019). Like here in Philippines, it is an occurrence that each of us see everyday and the

government had and always deal with.

In the study of R. Chivershe (2012) sought to establish wether pregnancy has an effect on

school attendance, school performance and emotional behaviour of pregnant.

C. Gyan (2013) talks about the effect of teenage pregnancy on the Educational

Attainment of Girls believe that teenage pregnancy is one of the social ills that affect society.

Although in study of L. Warrich, Christanson, J. Waruff and P: Cook. It is the study about

Educational outcomes in teenage pregnancy and parenting that pregnant and parenting teenagers
who attend a comprehensive ; school-based, community checked program that continue at

school. Otherwise in study of S. Horwitz, L. Klerman, H. Kuo and J. Jekol have the predictors of

long term educational and economic outcomes of concluded that most former teenage mothers

complete a reasonable amount of education and are economically self-sufficient.

Chapter III

Methodology

Research Respondents

The respondents that has helped us to gather the data were the grade 11 GAS and FAB

students from DASNHS. The students from grade 11 GAS and FAB, were used to gather the

specific data that the researchers needs. The researchers used these students because they have

experienced pregnancy first hand, and now are moms.

Research Design

The design that researchers used in this study is phenomenology. According to Standford

Encylopedia of Phylosophy (2003), phenomenology is the study of structures of consciousness

as experienced from the first-person point of view. The central structure of an experience is its

intentionality, its being directed toward something, as it is an experience of or about some object.

The researchers used this design because the main objective of the study is to study the teen

moms enrolled on grade 11 at DASNHS, we aim to study their situation and give it description,
give their own perspectives their positive and negative reaction of being a teen mom,

experiences, ups and downs, pros and cons of going through pregnancy and now, being a mom.

Research Locale

The research sudy was conducted in Dr. Arcadio Santos National High School, located at

Km. 15 East Service Rd. San Martin de Porres Parañaque City. This place is the exact locale for

this study for the obvious reason, that is the study focuses solely on the teen moms that are

enrolled on grade 11 senior high of DASNHS.

Research Gathering Procedure

The researchers would ask each grade 11 advisers if any of their students have gone

through this process to know what are their profiles and each of their background as to what the

adviser would say, and schedule the interview and pull through with the schedule to interview the

participants. We gave them a questionaire in addition to the face to face interview that we are

going to conduct, the interview would contain additional questions to add informations to the

research.

Research Instruments

The research instruent that we used to gather data are questionaire and interview. We

used both the strategies to gather datas because this would be more efficient way to get the

informations we need, questionaire alongside the interview we will conduct.

Research Questionnaire

1. What was your initial reaction after you've seen your baby?

2. How do you take care of your baby while simultaneously being a student?

3. Have your daily routines changed?

4. If so, how did it affected your social school life?

5. How did you fulfill the duty of being a parent and a student?

6. How did you face the challenges of being a mom and a student; especially staying up late at

night and the school activities like project and practices?

7. How did you tell your parents that you were pregnant?

8. How did they feel about what you told them?

9. What was their initial reaction when you told them that you were pregnant?
10. How did you copw with the situation?

11. What was the changes you have to make in your daily activities?

12. What are the lessons you have learned as to being a teen mum?
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