Published 2018
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“…Not only because of dealing with sexual intercourse at such an early age, but also as consequence of the facts that teenagers feel omniscient and invulnerable, their unwillingness to undertake responsibility for their relationships and their impulsive sexual behaviours; the poor knowledge about their body and how it works, the lack of proper sex education and sexual health and reproduction and their rights about this matter; peer and the mass media pressure, among other factors, young people are exposed to situations such as a non-desired or non-planned pregnancy, for which position they are neither psychologically or
emotionally nor economically prepared. The immense repercussions of such circumstance (
emotional, familiar, physical and even financial) – taking into account that, at present, highly effective family planning tools are at hand in our country, by right, for the young – makes it urgent to count on specific and concrete information that facilitates more effective programmes to prevent teenage pregnancy and, of course, adapted to the necessities and characteristics of the different groups of adolescents that there exist even in the same country, given that the youth implies biological, psychological, social and cultural processes that take place in a determined socio-cultural context which leaves its mark resulting in heterogeneous groups and thus pluralizing the meanings of youth. …”
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