Causas de embarazo precoz en adolescentes de un colegio fiscal en el cantón Milagro. Guayaquil 2018.

Abstract

According to Save the Children, each year 13 million children of women under 20 years of age are born worldwide, more than 90% (11.7 million) in developing countries and in the developed countries the remaining 10 % (1.3 million), which represents an important fact for the present work, where we set as objective to determine the main causes of early pregnancy in the adolescents of a Tax School in the Canton Milagro, the methodology worked was descriptive , quantitative, cross-sectional through the application of surveys and tabulation of numerical and percentage figures, considering a sample of 74 pregnant adolescents. The results obtained showed that early pregnancy comes from dysfunctional families (38%), single parents (35%) and extended families (9%), linked to the low level of education of parents (91%) and low family income (89%). ), where in the majority of dwellings only one person works (89%), the limited communication and scarce information on sexuality received by their parents (55%), were their peers of the same age who told them about sexuality ( 33%), to which is added the ignorance of the impor tance of the use of contraceptives (82%), as well as episodes of violence experienced in housing (51%), which are formed by dysfunctional homes, and want to escape of their reality (18%), by the influence of friends of the same age group (10%) and curiosity in other cases (10%), they maintained sexual relations and became pregnant.