VITAL ARTICLES

Here and there, and in every corner, we chance upon underage girls bearing heavy abdominal fetal loads. Sadly, sometimes these teenagers do not carry only pregnancy weights. They are forced to fend for themselves and their unborn babies by doing menial physical works such as street hawking and selling of firewood. As explained above, teenage pregnancy refers to situations where teen girls prematurely get impregnated by males, usually adults. Majority of the victims of teenage pregnancy forcefully drop out of school to seek antenatal and postnatal care. The male accomplices of teenage pregnancies usually either deny having any carnal knowledge of such victims, or even if they claim responsibility for such pregnancies, they are economically helpless to the young mothers.    This article seeks to list the causes and dangers associated with teenage pregnancies. Poverty plays a great role in causing teenage pregnancies. The lack of resources to cater for basic necessities...