DEVELOPING DEVELOPED

COUNTRIES COUNTRIES

Lorraine Lee Yenn Wern

PISMP TESL B JUN 2017
 Women who give birth at the age range of
13 to 19 years old.

TEENAGE PREGNANCY

Construction of it as a
Cultural influences Access to education
social problem?
 Cultural Influences

Developing countries Developed countries

• Traditional communities • Early marriages -

– culturally influenced uncommon
• Encourages early • Among unmarried
marriages teenagers
• Conceive at young age • Coherent to opposite-sex
cohabiting couples
 Figure 1. Number of Opposite-Sex Cohabiting Couples (in Thousands),
With Children under 18 years old.

Figure 1. Number of opposite-sex cohabiting couples (in thousands), with children under 18 years old: 1996-2015. Adapted from “America's Families and
Living Arrangements.”, 2015, United States Census Bureau. Copyright 2015 by Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement
Construction of Teenage Pregnancy as a
Social Problem
• Not a social problem • A social problem
• The lifestyle and • The role of drug and
culture of a alcohol use
traditional • Leads to sexual
community activity

Developing Developed
countries countries
 Access to Education

Developing countries Developed countries

• Very few children graduate from • Education is emphasized as a

secondary school and many
don’t even finish primary school
• Limited facility and accessibility
• A challenge for the society to
learn about the risk teen
pregnancy
basic necessity.
• Sex education programmes for
students.
• However, rate of teenage
pregnancy increase from year to
year.
• The perception of teen pregnancy varies from one
community to another.
• Influenced by the different rate of development.
• Hard to depict which perspective is deemed right or wrong.
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