... Canada there 25.7 teenagers per 1000 would fall pregnant between the ages of 15 and 19 years of age. The risks associated with becoming pregnant prematurely are immense. Regarding the mother's health she may face; anaemia, hypertension, eclampsia, depressive disorders if she decides to go through with the pregnancy, the child is at a high propensity to be born preterm and with ... a lower birth weight (Teen pregnancy, 2012). Socioeconomically a teen mother is also at a greater propensity for experiencing food scarcity, homelessness, poverty, unemployment and unable to complete a high sc...

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