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TEENAGE PREGNANCY AND FEMALE EDUCATIONAL UNDERACHIEVEMENT


This article discusses how teenage pregnancy and its effects on woman and their offspring has become a growing concern over the last few years. Studies have shown that teenage pregnancies are more common amongst school dropouts, because upon becoming pregnant, young women are likely to withdraw from education or at least reduce their commitment to continued education.
As compared with girls who have become pregnant during their teenage years and later dropped out of school, the rates of younger woman who become pregnant and then drop out are higher. Also, in contrast with women who do not become pregnant early, studies have shown that teenage mothers are more likely to experience a large variety of personal and social disadvantages such as early school leaving, educational underachievement, socioeconomic disadvantages, welfare dependence, single parenthood and marital instability.
Two possible explanations have......

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