Teen Pregnancy

Teen pregnancy is associated with negative consequences for both adolescents, and, when pregnancy is carried to term, their children. Teenage pregnancy, also known as adolescent pregnancy, is pregnancy in females under the age of 20. A female can become pregnant from sexualintercourse after she has begun to ovulate, which can be before her  first menstrual period (menarche) but usually occurs after the onset of her periods In well-nourished females, menarche usually takes place around the age of 12 or 13.

the UN said earlier this year.

India and Bangladesh remain among the countries where a girl is extremely likely to be married before she is 18, and have a child while still a teenager Pakistan and Sri Lanka show much lower rates of pregnancies among women aged 15 to 19 than India and Bangladesh, according to the report titled “Motherhood in Childhood.” Every year some four million teenage girls in India have babies. Underage marriage and teen pregnancy are major health and economic concerns. Some 70,000 teen girls die every year from complications in pregnancy and childbirth, mostly in the developing world, the report said.