Sex Education To Avoid Early Pregnancy

Sex education to avoid early pregnancy

Pregnancy in adolescents is an issue that has been made known more in recent years and that although societies have been advancing, it is not taken as the serious and delicate issue that is. This is something that brings many problems to these adolescents, who are not only physical consequences but also psychological. These cases are even more perceptible in the countries of the Caribbean and South America, since they are occupying the second place with the highest adolescents pregnancies in the full world as stated by UNFPA on February 28, 2018.

This situation is causing negative consequences that exceed the positive. According to an intramed study.Net What causes 44% of school dropout is pregnancy at an early age. In addition to that, it is caused by the lack of knowledge or rather the low quality of education and poverty in which some of these young women live. This is proven by an interview of Enhogar where 42.7% of these young women were little educated or only the bachelor had completed and 33.2% came from poor households.

Not only does the mother affected, but the baby can end up harmed. As stated by Alba Caraballo in Guiainfatil.com Young mothers babies usually have more health problems and disorders than mothers with the right age. Not only that, but it can also cause premature birth and lack of nutrients in the baby

For all those reasons mentioned above, I consider that sex education, on the prevention of pregnancy at an early age is the best option to avoid them or rather reduce the rate of these.

As a recommendation for educational institutions, implementing classes or workshops on sex education at ages of 13 to 18 years is the best option to help you understand how to avoid it and why it is important to prevent it from being so young.

To conclude, sex education has to be implemented in educational institutions like any other subject. Reducing the high percentage of teenagers is a priority and cannot be taken lightly, together with reducing school dropout significantly and at the same time creating mothers prepared for when it is the right time.