Causes and Effects of Teen Age Pregnancy Ages 15-18 in Naga City from the year 2018-2019

A Research Paper

Presented to the College of Arts and Sciences

Naga College Foundation

Naga City

In Partial Fulfilment of the requirements in

GEC5: The Contemporary World

Submitted by:

Nestea Saquillo

Andrea Avancena

College of Business Accountancy

BS - Entrep 1

Submitted to:

Ms. Amy M. Andal

November 2019
 CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

Going through a teen pregnancy is probably not going to be easy. Being a pregnant teen
can be overwhelming, confusing, and scary. There are around 500,000 pregnant teens every
year. Sometimes, “challenge” can be an understatement through women are able to give
birth as soon as they begin menstruating, there are some possible rise when you have a child
early on in your teen years. Teens in general, have a higher risk of preterm birth. Which often
goes along with amount of nutrients (such as in prenatal vitamins) during pregnancy. Regular
prenatal visits can help to reduce any risk and prepared the young mother for a great
pregnancy, birth and postpartum period.

Teen pregnancy can excuse a lot of changes, such as mood swings, fatigue, and change
in what you can or cannot do. Mood swing can cause tension in any relationship, and it’s
made worse when you feel that can’t control it. This emotional rollercoaster is fairly normal
during teen pregnancy, it might be a good idea to have conversation with your friends, family,
and /or boyfriend and let them known that these mood swing may happen occasionally, also
find some activities that help keep you even tempered. Some examples are slow breathing
exercise, going for a walk, etc. going through a teen pregnancy with your boyfriend can get
trickey, especially if the preganacy was not planned. It is because of you both first time of
experience and no idea how to survive or deal with. If you are early/ new in your relationship,
you may not already have a solid foundation to fall back on.

But as we see from the situation nowadays, what were expecting from the youth is the
country if the saying. Teenagers are prone to pregnancy. Almost every year there is a rapid
increase on the number of pregnant youths. One of the major causes of this problem is that
most of the ypuths nowadays grew up in broken homes. Parents either the father or mother
 of the youth chose to leave their children behind because of the fact that they cannot handle
anymore their obligation as parents.

The records of the city civil registry office showed that there are 161 cases of teenage
pregnancy in the city from January to June this year. A survey by the CPNO bared that cases of
adolescent pregnancy can be traced to poverty, broken family, sexual abuse, influences of
pormographic materials, and peer pressure.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The study aims to answer the following questions:

1. What is/are cause(s) of teenage pregnancy among teenager ages 15-18 years old from year
2018-2019 in Naga City?

2. What is/are the effect(s) of teenage pregnancy?

3. What are the measures undertaken by the local government unit (BHW’s) to lessen the rate
of teenage pregnancy among teenagers ages 15-18 years old?

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

This study aims to provide insight on what are the causes and effects of teenage
pregnancy among the selected teenagers in Naga City ages 15-18 years old from year to 2018-
2019.

1. To evaluate the causes and effects of teenage pregnancy on the selected teenager in Naga
City.

2. To know early pregnancy affects a teenager’s life.

SCOPE AND DELIMITATIONS

The focus of this study is ti determine the cause and effects of teenage pregnancy ages
15-18 in Barangay Cararayan in Naga City, we assumed that the number of respondents is 15
persons were used as a sample in conducting the survey. The of this study are from the year
2018-2019.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This study will benefit the following:

Teenagers - through this study they will have knowledge and awareness on how to
handle properly this kind of this situation, whenever they encounter the same.

Parents - through this study, they will have an insight of that can be used in order to
guide and support their children in the right path.

City Administrators - this study will provide additional information to the local
government on how to lessen teenage pregnancy in Naga City.

Future Researches - the results of the study can help future researches to generate new
findings in terms of research.

DEFINITIONOF TERMS

This chapter contains the different terms used in order to further understand the study.

Pre-term Birth - a premature birth.

Prenatal – provide regular check-ups that allow doctors or midwives to treat and
prevent potential health and to promote healthy lifestyle that will benefit both mother and
child.

Teenagers – a person aged between 13 and 19 years.

 Teenage Pregnancy – is pregnancy in human females under the age of 20 at the time
that the pregnancy ends. In well-nourished girls, menarche usually takes place around the age
of 12 or 13.
 CHAPTER 2

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

This chapter present the related and important concepts gleamed for literature that
have had been found useful in the conceptualization of the present study there related studies
and literature offered and enrichment in the conduct of this research work on teenage
pregnancy.

RELATED LITERATURE

The adolescent is faced with many decisions and needs accurate information on topics
such as body changes, sexual activity, emotional responses within intimate sexual relationship,
STD’s, and pregnancy. The number of Bicolano Teens getting pregnant declined from 12.719 in
2014 to 2,495 in 2016, according to the Philippines Statistics Authority. A substantial number of
these teenagers do not protect themselves from pregnancy or STD’s the dynamic of sexual risk
taking are not fully understood. But numerous studieshave found correlations between
drug/alcohol used, sexual abuse and unsafe sex. Keller et al. 2001; kenng et al, 2000

Adolescents tend to have a surge of being invulnerable, believing that unwanted

pregnancy; STD’s and other negative outcomes of sexual behaviour are not likely to happen to
them (keller et al, 2000). A number of factors a account for teenage pregnancy are of them is
the social media has contributed to the surge of teenage pregnancy rate in country. (Dr. Mike
Manalaysay) a pedritician believes that with the used of technological innovation, it is one of
psychological behaviour of adolescents who are mostly engaged in social media activities every
day.
DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS

Teenage pregnancy pertains to pregnancy of a woman whose aged is less than 19

years old according to (Juliet C.)

Teen pregnancy is often seen as a mistake, however blamking teen pregnancy more or
two things or person don’t resolve the solution. Teen pregnancy is something that’s affects
teen that has no parental guidance or the parent don’t have time for them