Teenage Pregnancy

Abstract

This work seeks throughout its topics to present one of the major social problems in the world, teenage pregnancy, highlighting the vision of renowned authors, as well as establishing an understanding of the measures adopted by governments in order to minimize the growth of adolescents who become become mothers. The general objective of the work is to highlight the aspects involved in teenage pregnancy, as for the specific objectives, they are: describe the social view on teenage pregnancy; present the measures or precautions established by the government as a way to minimize pregnancy among teenagers; highlight the relevance of prenatal care for pregnant women. In the process of developing the work, a literary review was carried out, based on works published in the last 11 years, to highlight some of the main concepts and evaluations of authors from both the social and medical fields.