2024-07-14 20:10:00
The events of early pregnancy It is not exclusive to a state or region in Mexico. It is a phenomenon that is in the first places in the national area, researcher at the Peninsular Center for Humanities and Social Sciences at UNAM, Amada Rubio Herrera.
For example, every year in our country they report more than 10 thousand are children under 15 years old, which, almost always, is related to some kind of violence. It is a fact for which there are different explanations, not only economic and social but also cultural such as forced marriages, early unions, customs and traditions, among other aspects.
What is the early pregnancy rate in Mexico?
Based on information from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank, Mexico is the sixth country in Latin America (LA) and the Caribbean by early pregnancy rate with 71 births per thousand young people, in total; It has passed through Nicaragua and Honduras, among other countries in the region.
Based on your research “Prevention of teenage pregnancy in Yucatán; challenges in the event of the company”two out of ten women under the age of fifteen become mothers.
“I have focused on the southern cone of the peninsula, where the majority of the indigenous population is located and where these expressions of early pregnancy are more evident in the rural, historical and poor conditions.”
According to the expert of the university, the World Population Organization of the United Nations warned that due to the pandemic of COVID-19 there will be a setback in a significant number of years in prevention in young people and its destruction in girls, and it is clear great effect on the number of pregnancies in this population.
Cycles of poverty and inequality
As part of the findings of his research, he noted that young men and women experience pregnancy in a different way than what appears in the common mind; that is, with deep sorrow and violence.
Likewise, they face difficulties in continuing with their formal education, which limits their opportunities for personal and professional development, contributing to perpetuating cycles of poverty and inequality, in addition to being ridiculed and criticized in their schools by their peers. and teachers, which led 80 to 90 percent of those interviewed to leave their studies at the beginning of the pregnancy, some had done so before.
Family and friendship relationships are also damaged, and in many cases they take this stage in complete disregard, Rubio Herrera emphasized.
Yucatán shows wide gaps in social well-being and inequality. As part of this, the female sector – adults, youths, young people and girls – suffer from these asymmetries that arise from the processes of exclusion and inequalities based on other events.
In this Mexican article, children learn to be mothers in practice, with a significant lack of knowledge, for example, about the vaccines that babies should receive or take care of in the first months of life.
This is also a product of discourse, because they feel bad when they go to health centers to ask for information, they are predisposed to deny and experience their pregnancy in isolated situations.
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