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    Position Paper The Social Problem of Teenage Pregnancy in The Philippines

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    Teenage pregnancy is a significant social problem in the Philippines, with 13.6% of girls under 18 becoming pregnant in 2018. The Philippines has the highest teen pregnancy rate among ASEAN countries. One of the main causes is a lack of sex education and access to birth control. Teenagers are exposed to topics like sex through media but lack guidance from parents. To address this issue, stakeholders must improve sex education while encouraging more parental involvement to discuss relationships and teach values to guide teens.

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    Position Paper The Social Problem of Teenage Pregnancy in The Philippines

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    Teenage pregnancy is a significant social problem in the Philippines, with 13.6% of girls under 18 becoming pregnant in 2018. The Philippines has the highest teen pregnancy rate among ASEAN countries. One of the main causes is a lack of sex education and access to birth control. Teenagers are exposed to topics like sex through media but lack guidance from parents. To address this issue, stakeholders must improve sex education while encouraging more parental involvement to discuss relationships and teach values to guide teens.

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    Teenage pregnancy is a significant social problem in the Philippines, with 13.6% of girls under 18 becoming pregnant in 2018. The Philippines has the highest teen pregnancy rate among ASEAN countries. One of the main causes is a lack of sex education and access to birth control. Teenagers are exposed to topics like sex through media but lack guidance from parents. To address this issue, stakeholders must improve sex education while encouraging more parental involvement to discuss relationships and teach values to guide teens.

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    Position Paper The Social Problem of Teenage Pregnancy in The Philippines

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    Teenage pregnancy is a significant social problem in the Philippines, with 13.6% of girls under 18 becoming pregnant in 2018. The Philippines has the highest teen pregnancy rate among ASEAN countries. One of the main causes is a lack of sex education and access to birth control. Teenagers are exposed to topics like sex through media but lack guidance from parents. To address this issue, stakeholders must improve sex education while encouraging more parental involvement to discuss relationships and teach values to guide teens.

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    Position Paper

    The Social Problem of Teenage Pregnancy in the Philippines.

    The Philippines is currently haunted by teenage pregnancy woes as 13.6 percent of girls below
    18-years-old got themselves pregnant in 2018. Worse, nine percent of girls aged between 15
    and 19 have already given birth or are pregnant, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said in
    2017. Compounding the problem is that 17 percent of females aged 15 to 49, the period of
    fecundity, want to use family planning methods, but are not doing so or have no access to such
    methods. The Philippines has become the topnotcher in teen pregnancies among the six major
    economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), with the rate in the
    Philippines increasing while the same rate was reported to be sinking in the other member-
    states.

    One of the reasons why teenagers are already aware with this topic is because of media. They
    get a higher knowledge to sex from the magazines, TV shows, internet, movies and other
    media. In television, they now also create and make shows about teen pregnancy like “Teen
    Moms” and “16 and Pregnant”. These shows make us realize that the rate of this problem is
    getting higher and it is getting usual. There are a lot of reported cases regarding teenage
    pregnancy since the past few years until now.

    According to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), the rate if teenage
    pregnancy in the country is at 3 out of 1,000 Filipino women that have ages between 15 to 19
    years old. The Philippine information Agency also added that teenage mothers gave over 11
    percent of the 1.75 live births in the Philippines. A UNFPA 2011 annual report showed that
    there are 53 births per 1,000 women aged 15-19 in the Philippines. The 1988 National
    Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) said that 3.6 million of our teenagers, or 5.2 percent of
    our population, got pregnant. 92 percent of these teens had unplanned pregnancies and 78
    percent did not even use contraceptive the first time they had sexual intercourse. Many of our
    youth are clueless today on sexual intercourse, leading to unwanted and unplanned
    pregnancies. Without robust response from stakeholders, the Philippines are on track toward
    full-blown, national teenage pregnancy crisis.

    One of the major causes of teen pregnancy is absence of affectionate supervision from parents
    or guardians. In the current society, parents are either too busy or too permissive. Apart from
    the provision of basic needs, parents and guardians are not involved in emotional stability of
    the girl child. Teenagers, especially girls go through intriguing situations and changes in which
    they need parental support to understand and accept the changes. In case they lack this
    affectionate supervision from their parents, they seek answers from boyfriends who “seem” to
    be giving the affection and attention that ends up with a pregnancy.
    In Conclusion, teenage pregnancy is a bad thing for young ones. Therefore, the increasing rate
    of pregnant teenage girls should be stop because of its negative effects. To void it, everyone
    must be aware of what it is and how will it affect one’s life. The main reasons for the high rate
    of teenage pregnancies are inadequate sex education (some girls do not know that having sex
    can result in pregnancy or fully consider the responsibility of having children) and a lack of
    access to birth control. I believe that teenage pregnancy is a problem that should be resolved
    inside the family unit. If parents do not want to be faced with this problem, they should take
    precautionary measures. These steps should begin when their child is born. The young person
    should be taught social values that they will carry to his/her teen years. Teach them that they
    are not "nerds" because they are virgins, but on the contrary, they are better because they
    have self-purity. Show them the path they must take when they are young.

    References:

    Rica Arevalo (2019), Teenage Pregnancy Worsening in PH ( October 29, 2019)


    Teenage pregnancy worsening in PH – Manila Bulletin (mb.com.ph)

    Youth Problems in the Philippine Society, Teenage Pregnancy.

    TEENAGE PREGNANCY - Youth Problems in the Philippine Society (weebly.com)

    UNFPA (2020), Eliminating Teenage Pregnancy in the Philippines.

    UNFPA_Policy_Brief_Teenage_Pregnancy_(2020-01-23)

    No. of Words: 703

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