Education

An immediate result checker

Unwanted pregnancy is a pregnancy that occurs which is not wanted, mostly by the woman or her partner. The following are possible factors leading to unwanted pregnancy; early marriage, peer pressure, s*xual experimentation, unavailability of family planning services, misinformation or myths on male/female s*xuality, fear or myths about contraceptive use, not using contraceptives, lack of knowledge or information, failure to use contraceptive methods properly, violence, such as rape and defilement, lack of ability to negotiate contraceptive use or safer s*x and etc. The social consequences of unwanted pregnancy are equally devastating. Most adolescents who become pregnant are forced to drop out of school and may never return, affecting their future life negatively. Several of them may not even get married and establish a family. Besides, they may be shamed in families and communities. This may entail unstable and distressing emotional turmoil where the young girl may be tempted to illicitly terminate the pregnancy or resort to suicide. Finally, the following prevention strategies are suggested for clubs conducting peer education programs; ncreasing knowledge on reproductive systems, you should have adequate information about male and female reproductive systems, since poor knowledge about human s*xuality is one of the causes of unwanted pregnancy, increasing the contraceptive knowledge, young people with poor knowledge about family planning practices run high risks of unwanted pregnancies. Even those with some rudimentary knowledge have fears and misconceptions about using contraceptive methods. Therefore, sufficient knowledge about contraception needs to be imparted to these high-risk groups and once the youth acquires adequate knowledge about family planning, the contraceptive methods should be made available to avoid unwanted pregnancy.