Teenage Marriage

                                                                   PART I
                                         Teenage marriage is typically defined as the union of two adolescents joined in marriage from the age range of 14–19 years old. Until the late 20th century, teen marriage was very common and instrumental in securing a family, continuing a blood lineage and producing offspring for labor. Many factors contribute to teen marriage such as teen pregnancy, religion, security, family and peer pressure, arranged marriage, economic and political reasons, social advancement, and cultural reasons. Studies have shown that teenage married couples are often less advantageous, may come from broken homes, may have little education and work low status jobs in comparison to those that marry after adolescence.

                                         During the days of our parents or grandparents, girls (teenagers) aging 14-19 years old are not allowed to have relationship with someone, they must reach the right age to do so. If you're a boy, you cannot win easily the heart of your love, you have to win first the heart of her parents. You have to visit her home,etc. But today, as you can see, it is just ordinary for us to see teenagers as a couple. Teenagers nowadays are very far away from the teenager of the past. We can say that they are rebellious and always curious about something. Rebellious in the way that they do everything that they want with no boundaries and no limitation. Curious in the way that when something new things/ new ideas that comes into their mind that really catch their attention they would actually try it, and curiosity will occur. Without thinking the consequences of their action, bad things might happen.

                                          Some of the news or we can say from the experiences of other people that are being shared to me, the first factor that might led them to early teenage marriage is their curiosity on sex. we can say because of having relationship on early age, many thing could happen. Like having sex,well it's just an ordinary thing on a couple but on a teenager?It might cause to the pregnancy of the girl, and they should married each other because of what happened. Sometimes, tradition might also a big factor. 

                                                           PART II (Of My Answer)

                                          In our world today most especially in the developing country, teenage pregnancy is as a result of traditional roles and early marriage, because teenage pregnancy is seen as a blessing and a proof that the young woman is fertile. In most cases, poverty contributes to this, when one does not have someone to take care of her at her early age.

                                          In the developed world, the causes of teenage pregnancy is different in the sense that it is mostly outside marriage and carries lots of social stigma. Thus, adolescent sexual behaviour is one of the causes of teenage pregnancy. In our world today, having sex before 20yrs is the in thing, it is even the normal all over the world and this brought about high levels of adolescent pregnancy which creates sexual relationship among teenagers without the provision of comprehensive information about sex.

                                          The in-take of drugs, alcohol etc contributes a lot to teenage pregnancy meanwhile as a teenager you may not be ready for sexual intercourse at that moment but being intoxicated with drugs and alcohol makes you to be involved in unintended sexual activity just because sex at that time is less emotionally painful and embarrassing. To avoid this, eradicate anything alcohol or drugs.

                                           Furthermore, sexual abuse is also one of the causes of teenage pregnancy. Rape as a sexual abuse has more effect in the life of our teenage girls causing unwanted sex and teenage pregnancy.

                                           In my opinion, age discrepancies also causes teenage pregnancy in the sense that a teenage girl with a partner much older than herself is more likely to get pregnant more often than a girl that have a partner of a close age, as she prefers having the children than abortion since she is not educated enough to use contraceptives. This is not should be tolerated by their parents this is an action that should be stop as soon as possible!