Factores sociales que inciden en el embarazo de adolescentes en edades de 13 a 17 años, en el contexto comunitario: Barrio Carrizal sector sur de la ciudad de Barranquilla

Abstract

In recent years, the increase in adolescent maternity rates is a cause for concern in the city of Barranquilla, and also at the national level, the Carrizal neighborhood is no exception, since there is a large increase in cases of adolescent pregnancy in the last 5 years, with a marked growth rate in the age group of 12 to 15 years and as a consequence of this the increase in problems related to motherhood. Motherhood in adolescents means risks to their health and that of their children, since it begins, since most are unplanned or unwanted pregnancies.

The importance of this research, in the field of social work, lies in the need to generate actions that contain the population, from the social, family, educational point of view, both for the adolescent population and the adult population. When a pregnancy occurs in the period of adolescence, a double demand is presented within the life of the adolescent woman, since in addition to facing the physical, psychological and social changes of age, she must face the process of gestation and motherhood , which can place it in a vulnerable situation. Although pregnancy in adolescence should not necessarily be seen as a problem, it is important to be alert to the possibility that motherhood affects the proper development of the people involved. For some adolescent women, pregnancy at this age confronts them with assuming new responsibilities for which they are not yet prepared and, sometimes, this is accompanied by rejection by close people, abandonment, stigmatization and censorship, which leads to adolescent social isolation. Consequently, the development and presentation by the Ministry of Health of programs that help reduce this problem is necessary, as well as making us create an awareness of alertness in the face of such a difficult situation that our adolescents live, it is a problem in which We are all involved and therefore we must work to seek to improve this situation.