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Each year, almost 750,000 teenage women in USA aged 15–19 become pregnant (U.S. Teenage Pregnancy Statistics, 2006). Worldwide, rates of teenage pregnancy range from 143 per 1000 in sub-Saharan Africa to 2.9 per 1000 in South Korea (UNICEF, 2001).
The reasons of this problem are various in different countries, but most common are lower educational levels, higher rates of poverty, and other poorer life outcomes. These reasons of teenage pregnancy are understood today quite one-sidedly. It is not only an unsafe sexual act, it is in some cases the inability or unwillingness to practice safe sex that leads to unplanned conception and undesirable pregnancy. A fact of great importance is that early pregnancy is a result of simple ignorance of their own body (i.e. the anatomy of genitals, the concept of "menstrual cycle", the process of conception, and the factors influencing this process), and it concerns both girls, and boys. A huge role, besides physiological, is played by......

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