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Teenage Pregnancy In The Philippines

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Teenage pregnancy is a communal, family and a personal problem all rolled into one.It is the condition of being pregnant at the age of 10-19. It frequently goes hand in hand with premarital sex.In today’s generation, technology and the social media was the center of most people’s talk today. There is a plethora of television shows wherein the characters were engaged to sexual intercourse even without being married-- in other words, premarital sex.Teenagers tend to get a higher knowledge to sex from the internet, magazines, movies and TV shows. They even created TV shows about teenage pregnancy like “Katorse”, “Anglelito: AngBatangAma” and “Bagito”. These shows are realizations that the rate of this problem is getting higher and it is getting usual for the past years until now. According to the 2002 Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Study by the University of the Philippines Population Institute (Uppi) and the Demographic Research and Development Foundation, there are 26 percent of our Filipino youth nationwide aged 15 to 25 admitted to be engaging in pre-marital sex and 38 percent of our youth are already in a live-in arrangement.In fact, Philippines ranked the highest rate in teenage pregnancy among the six ASEAN major economies.
YAFS II show that 18%, or 2.5 million of Filipinos aged 15- 24 have engaged in premarital sex, and 74% of this figure (approximately1.8 million) does not use any contraceptive method to prevent pregnancy. What is more disconcerting is the fact

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