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Adolescent Pregnancy: Boon or Bane?

A Thesis Presented

To the Faculty of the College of Education

Southern Philippines College

Cagayan de Oro City

n Partial Fulfill!ent of the Course

"e#uire!ents for the $egree

Bachelor of Ele!entary Education

By

%oan &arie "' Beltran

Charlene &ae C' Osorno

%oanna %essa T' Ala!(ra

Analisa A' Banto

Claire )a*el %oerf S' Tarre

"esearch &entor

&arch +,-.


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Ac/no0ledg!ents

First and foremost, I all give my most gracious thanks and appreciation to God,

the Almighty. He is the one who has guided and provided me the strength I needed all

throughout the competition of this study.

I would also like to thank those individuals for their unending support and

patience to bring out the best for this study. Without their impeccable cooperation, this

study would not be possible today. In particular, I would like to thank

!y beloved parents for their unwavering love and encouragement to motivate me

to finish this study"

!s. #ulee Ann $uites, our research mentor, for her constant guidance and

corrections ensuring that this study is optimally developed in the best way it can ever be

produced.

Finally, our sincere thanks to the respondents for their cooperation in patiently

answering the %uestionnaires.


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A(stract

O(1ecti2e: &his study aimed to determine the reasons of the early pregnancy and its

effects towards them'

"esearch 3ocale: &he research study was conducted in 'outhern (hilippines )ollege

#ulio (acana 't., )agayan de *ro )ity.

"esearch Participants: &he research participants are the early pregnant mothers and

teenagers of 'outhern (hilippines )ollege.

"esearch nstru!ent: &he research instrument to be used in this study is a survey

%uestionnaire.

Conclusion: &his study illustrated the fact that most of the youth tend to have se+ with

their boyfriends without being mindful on their risk of being pregnant. &he fact that a

lack of knowledge about proper se+ual health practices endangers their life as well as

their future specifically in their opportunity of finishing their high school and college

studies. A lack of knowledge about se+ and se+uality did not prepare them about what

to e+pect in relationships, and what it means to be a parent. ven though they have

been pregnant at an early age their situations as a teenage mom pushed then to be a

good person and a good mother for their baby.


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Contents

Page

&itle (age i

Acknowledgements ii

Abstract

iii

4"O$5CTO4

-ackground of the 'tudy

'tatement of the (roblem /

'tatement of 0ull Hypothesis /

'ignificance of the 'tudy /

'cope and 1imitation 2

$efinition of &erms 3

&ATE"A3S A4$ &ET)O$S

4esearch 1ocale 5

4esearch (articipants 5

4esearch Instruments /

"ES53TS A4$ $SC5SSO4S 2

CO4C35SO4S 67

"ECO&&E4$ATO4S 65

Works )ited 6/

4esearcher8s (rofile 62


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)hapter

"ESEA"C) BAC67"O54$

&een pregnancy is a ma9or health concern in the American school system.

According to the 0ational )enter for Health 'tatistics, the birth rate among female

adolescents increased 7 percent in the year 6::;, after decades of decline entura, 6::2?. &he incidence of adolescent pregnancy in @nited 'tates is

higher than the ma9ority of other industrialied Western nations, with 7B. births per

::: teens in 6::B


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'tudents e+pressed an Doptimistic biasE in numerous studies. D*ptimistic biasE is

defined as the perception that students are less likely than others to e+perience

negative conse%uences from their health behaviors


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attention


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State!ent of the Pro(le!

&his study sought to find out the cause and effect of early pregnancy. It

specifically sought to answer the following %uestions

. At what age they have been pregnant

6. What were the reasons on their early pregnancy

7. How does being pregnant at an early age affects them

)ypothesis

&eenage pregnancy is related mostly on the society a person lives and how the

values of the inner society are installed in that person. In areas where is better

education there may be more ways to prevent teenage pregnancy. -ut in rural areas for

e+ample there are more risks to be a teenage mom.

Significance of the Study

&his study is significance for the following reasons

a. nhancement of people8s knowledge on number of students indulged in

teenage pregnancy.


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b. Increase the awareness and knowledge on the increasing number of teenage

pregnancy cases.

c. &o be able for them to absorb and reflect the effects and problems attached in

teenage pregnancy.

d. &o help prevent from indulging from this early pregnancy.

Teenagers 8 they are the ones involved in this case. &hey could be helped

through the informative content of this study. &hey could realie the negative

effects of teenage pregnancy and how it could change their whole life.

Society it could lessen the percentage of single parenthood among the

community. It could orient family members on how teenage pregnancy can affect

the family most especially the teens

3ocal 7o2ern!ent 8 they could be able to implement and facilitate pro9ects

concerning the rate of teenage pregnancy issue. &hey could be able to

understand the deeper cause of this inflating rate of early pregnancy.

Parents 8 they could e+pect a better future and a progressive and a more

valuable and worthy support to their sons and daughters.

Sources of Contracepti2e !aterials 8 they may e+pect an increase in demand

due to the awareness of the teenagers on getting pregnant at an early age.


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Co!!unity &e!(ers 8 they could build a strong alliance against teenage

pregnancy and they could be more productive part of the community in terms of

cooperating in the alliance.

4on 8 7o2ern!ent Organi*ation 8 they could more stabilie their goals on the

sector and comply an efficient purpose on e+ecution of ideas from which this

study focuses. &hey could be more sufficient in terms of pro9ect planning and

data analysis of social factors of teenage pregnancy.

Others 8 they would get a broader knowledge on how the teenage pregnancy

works in the society.

Scope and $eli!itations of the Study

&his investigation is conducted to determine the rate of teenage student

that is engaged in teenage pregnancy. &his way, we could determine the status and

profile of the teenagers indulged in teenage pregnancy. &he aspects looked into were

the %uantitative information of number of teenaged students indulged in teenage

pregnancy and the data behind this. &his investigation focuses on number of teenage

students indulged in teenage pregnancy in 'outhern (hilippines )ollege as

respondents.


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$efinitions of Ter!s

Teenage pregnancy refers to any pregnancy on women that took place

between the ages 7 B years old.

Teen aged students refers to students that ages a number that end in DteenE

as the last syllable such as 7, 5, /, ;, 2, 3, and B.

"ate refers to a %uantity from a recent %uantity.

ST9s refers to 'e+ually &ransmitted Infections

ST$9s refers to 'e+ually &ransmitted $isease


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)hapter 6

"EE; OF "E3ATE$ 3TE"AT5"E A4$ ST5$ES

&he purpose of this chapter is to review the available literature focusing on the

areas of policy relating to teenage pregnancy under e+ploration in this thesis. Having

presented the various trends in teenage pregnancy and related rates as well as

associated and causal factors in the previous chapter, this chapter begins by providing

further e+planation as to why the three particular areas of policy chosen for e+ploration

were se+ education, se+ual health and education. &he remainder of this chapter then

concentrates on reviewing the available literature for those three policy areas.

In order to become pregnant, generally, se+ual intercourse needs to have taken

place and contraception to have not been used or not been used effectively or the

contraceptive itself has failed. In )hapter *ne, the most apparent key difference

between Finland and 'cotland, that may go some way to e+plaining the differing trends

in teenage pregnancy between the two countries, was that of the contraceptive use of

young people.

In order to use contraception there are at least three underlying factors which

must be present. First, young people must have knowledge of issues relating to se+,

se+uality and contraception


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obtain contraceptive advice and services. &hey must also perceive that they have Jreal8

access to the provisions of such services


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researchers are united in acceptance that se+ education is a continuous process, which

begins when people are very young, and continues throughout the life course


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Ignorance about se+ and se+uality places young people at risk of pregnancy,

'&Is and abuse. In addition a lack of knowledge about se+ and se+uality would also not

prepare young people about what to e+pect in relationships, what it means to be a

parent, or provide them with the ability to be in control of their own se+ual identities and

activities. Wellings et al


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Wellings et al.


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)hapter 7

&ET)O$O3O7amenta -arra *pol !isamis *riental

'e+ Female

$ate of -irth $ecember 6,BB

(lace of -irth &ubaran 1anao del 0orte

)ivil 'tatus 'ingle

4eligion Islam

)itienship Filipino

Fa!ily Bac/ground

!other Fatima -anto

*ccupation House wife

Address >amenta -arra *pol !isamis *riental

Father Afarat -anto

*ccupation $river

7;

Address >amenta -arra *pol !isamis *riental


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Educational Bac/ground

)ollege 'outhern (hilippines )ollege

High 'chool -ulua 0ational High 'chool ear 6::3 6::B

lementary -uribid lementary 'chool ear 6::7 6::5

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