Teenage Parenting: The Problems Of Problems Faced By Teenage Mothers

2.4.0 Problems encountered by teenage mothers.

Teenage pregnancy causes a lot of problem for the teen mother. It May occur during pregnancy and it may occur before birth and after birth of the child. There are several problems that teenage face in their short term or long term. Teenage pregnancy come unexpectedly each individual experience it differently. Teenage mothering implicate numerous consequences both for the mother as her child as well as her future children(Oyaro 2008 &Nijery,Frida et al 2012).Several researcher, reached a conclusion whereby the future life of teenage mothers would be full of stress and will have to experience several problems(Tonelli 2014).

2.4.1 Physical/Health Problems

The concept of physical problems refers to

Social therefore refers to all human resources (Poggenpoel ;1990:9).It is important for a teenage to be part of a group however teen mothers has problems to make in relationships with peer groups which they belong to before getting pregnant (Panzanine 1986:153-161).A pregnant teen woman who stop school and is single will become alienated from her friends. She has to face social pressure of her and may also be victim of parents. She can also not feel at ease to date a new partner and to engage in sexual activities .(Linda L.Hendrixsonn May 1929).According to (Njeru,Frida and 2012)there are some social problems linked to teenage pregnancy , this compromises of school, abandon of the child and the mother remain unemployed. This stigma closely attached to them prevents them from going back to school. Moreover teenage mothers may be victim of negative public attitude directed towards them everywhere they go ,and also when victim of negative public attitude directed toward them everywhere they go, and also when visit health centres(Barbara et al

The Disruption from school affect the future life of teenage mothers as having a low education cause the chance of getting a job to be low this results in poor economic status(Macleod ;1990).It has been found that the teenage mothers has to face the reality that she is the only one who provide care to her child. It has also been found that the family of the teenage mother way of living affects her education process. The teenage that lives in a family with strong academic background tend to continue schooling compared to mature mother have low academic level (Kerlman 1993:555).The teenage mother also do drop out of school due to rejection from their surroundings at school this make it difficult for the teenage mother to be willing to go back to school in such circumstances (Camarena et al; 1998&Smith Battle; 2007; Yardte