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In United States of America the average age for the first menstrual period is said to be around twelve and a half and the first ovulation will occur after the first menstrual period has passed. The average age for first menstrual period varies widely in various females as per their ethnicity and their weight. Researches prove that the average age of first menstrual period is coming down these days and this is a serious issue considering that it will give rise to teenaged pregnancy. Exact numbers for teenaged pregnancy won’t ever be know as it is hard to take into consideration each and every teenaged girl but statistics says that around 15% of teenage girls in African countries get pregnant and less than 1% teenage girls in South Korea get pregnant.

Pregnant teenagers also face many pregnancy related issues like women in the age of 20 to 30. Although, in case of young girls particularly those under the age of 16 pregnancy related problems can cause severe health related hazards. For girls above the age of 16 the pregnancy related issues do pop up but not with that intensity as in girls below the age of 16. Countries which have lesser education facilities, high poverty levels, and other low grade facilities to live a healthy lifestyle are the ones who face more cases of teenage pregnancy.

Here we will list some of the causes of teenaged pregnancy:

• Contraception: Young guys and girls are many times confused, embarrassed, or frightened to find out more about contraceptive measures and hence land up getting pregnant before the right age.
• Less information about sexuality: In the young age below 20 it isn’t easy for girls and guys to gather proper information related to sexuality and pregnancy. They might try their best but won’t be able to know the most important points just because of the ignorance of their elders. Although these days proper sex education is being provided to youngsters in many countries still not everyone gets the knowledge which they should gain and hence the chances of teenage pregnancy jumps up.
• Differences in age between the two opposite sexes: Researches have proved that young girls who get involved with adult men or older men have more chances of getting pregnant than the girls who are involved with boys of their own ages.

Proper knowledge and proper lifestyle facilities are the best ways to help decrease teenage pregnancy and it has to be the government which can provide these to decrease the cases of teenage pregnancy.