TEENAGE PREGNANCY AND ITS EFFECT TO
FEMALE STUDENTS PERFORMANCE
A teenage student would not want to be pregnant in this stage of life but sometimes it happened due to their own personal reasons. In many countries where students and parents do not have much family ties and children are engage so much to peer pressure and exploitation. In this stage of their life they tend to pro create and wander about what seems to be unknown and basically leads to many vices especially girls who have experience drugs, alcoholism, smoking and basically young relationship that leads to early pregnancy.
Unknowingly early pregnancy is a worldwide problem especially among students, sometimes it is a personal choice, sometimes it is a result of abuse, and sometimes these children rebel against their parents that leads to early sexual relationship and therefore pregnancy, but most of the time students are not aware of the implication that it may bring anxiety and hopelessness inside school and at home especially when they have no one to go on to. In Kristine’s case she was deeply in love with his boyfriend when she was 15 years of age she felt like nobody has given her the importance in life and she was indeed happy when she was with him.
Until finally unexpected thing happen when she was 16 she got pregnant, it was in his fourth year high school grade when his boyfriend has gone out and nowhere to be found. Kristine was very frightened that she began to quit school. And when his parents found out she was cursed to live alone she began to look for work in a restaurant but later discharge when the employer found out that she was pregnant, her classmate wouldn’t let her live with them and when she experience hardship she committed suicide. This is an actual scene that can happen in a student who has experience early pregnancy in life.
A teenage pregnant student may experience anxiety and hopelessness due to the fact that they cannot support themselves a 14 or 16 year old high school girls are usually dependent from their parents and may have a hard time feeling of guilt and conscience that they may not be able to focus on her study. In the case of Cheryl she lost his friends and experience shame inside school when she got pregnant some student have discriminated her but she still remains in silence and solitude. There are also times that she would cry in school because she has become a daily victim of gossip, until finally when she gave birth, she decided to quit school and lost her social life since she will be the one to take care of her children still she wanted to go to school but she couldn’t.
Unbelievably in Fraser High School in Memphis there are 90 simultaneous experiences of student’s early pregnancy that is about 11 percent of their high school class and this dire eventuality has definitely alarmed the school to change their position to reform school and focus on moral values and sex education to inform the students about the responsibility of this cases and why things have been happening in this institution and other programs to bring together the parents, teachers and students about the problem. The social welfare division in the city of Memphis has also distinguishes their needs to extend help to student who have experience this kind of problem. Some of these students still striving high school while some have given birth and already quit school. Teacher have been blaming the media and technology about the problems but some parents have focused on the lack of academic reforms but none have given then the real direction to reduce problems but this programs can give a benefit of the doubt that future students will never face or will eliminate such problems that degrade their school to prove that their school is focused on the quality of education which is their goal. It is expected that these students will experience hardship and will struggle in learning that they are feared of non attendance and non performance, no projects, no thesis in school and they does. Some have even revoked their initiative to continue schooling.
The Students themselves must be responsible about the condition that they have created. The role of parents and guardians can play a big part in teaching their children about their responsibility and their character development although schools themselves are the institution that should manifest in the students personality, sometimes the confidence and trust that focused on the material and luxury of life and needs of the students are sometimes transcribed as more important that they have forgotten to inculcate the value of the children which is more important.
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