The median age at which Australian first having sexual intercourse is 17, lying in the teenage group of age (Marino, 2016). According to Better Health Channel, 50% of all Australian teenagers in Year 12 have had sex and one in four of them do not use contraception, leading to countless unexpected pregnancies and hence, teenage parenthood. The positive reducing number of adolescent mothers over the year (Figure 1) however does not imply that the processes of pregnancy and parenting would have any less significant impacts on the girls. Some of the various challenges teenage mums have to overcome occur in both personal and social aspects could be named as unsustainable health condition, depressions, self-destructive feelings, high chance of illiteracy,
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Therefore, there is a chance that adolescent moms will lack adequate prenatal care for the first few months, which makes it more complicated for them to deal with any health issues that arise later (pregnancybirthbaby.org.au, 2016). It is alarming because these girls are not developed enough to undergo this physical change which is supposed to be experienced by fully grown women. Therefore, they are facing higher risk of having high blood pressure, anemia and vitamin deficiencies as well as potential problems for their babies such as premature birth, developmental delay and mental retardation (World Health Organisation, …show more content…
Family, school and even neighbourhood could support these young moms in various ways. Firstly, the girls’ parents have the responsibility to ensure their daughters’ both physical and mental conditions. Being the closets relationships to the girls, the families could be the biggest emotional support the girls can afford and the relationship that they always rely on when they have socialising issues during this hard time. Furthermore, other female members in the family who have experience could discuss and provide instructions about every aspect that these expectant mothers concern during this life-changing
Therefore, there is a chance that adolescent moms will lack adequate prenatal care for the first few months, which makes it more complicated for them to deal with any health issues that arise later (pregnancybirthbaby.org.au, 2016). It is alarming because these girls are not developed enough to undergo this physical change which is supposed to be experienced by fully grown women. Therefore, they are facing higher risk of having high blood pressure, anemia and vitamin deficiencies as well as potential problems for their babies such as premature birth, developmental delay and mental retardation (World Health Organisation, …show more content…
Family, school and even neighbourhood could support these young moms in various ways. Firstly, the girls’ parents have the responsibility to ensure their daughters’ both physical and mental conditions. Being the closets relationships to the girls, the families could be the biggest emotional support the girls can afford and the relationship that they always rely on when they have socialising issues during this hard time. Furthermore, other female members in the family who have experience could discuss and provide instructions about every aspect that these expectant mothers concern during this life-changing