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Child Mothers Set To Double By 2030- UN by 9jaflave: 3:10pm On Oct 31, 2013
http://9jaflave..com/2013/10/child-mothers-set-to-double-by-2030-un.html

The number of girls who become mothers before they are 15 years old is set nearly to double in sub-Saharan Africa by 2030, according to a new United Nations report.

The report says West and Central Africa account for the world's highest proportion of reported births before the mothers turn 15. In countries where child marriage is common - such as Chad, Guinea, Mali, Mozambique and Niger - one girl in 10 has a child before the age of 15.

These figures are spelled out in the latest annual report of the UN Population Fund, entitled "Motherhood in Childhood".

The report says West and Central Africa have the world's largest proportion of young women - 28% - who say they became mothers before they were 18. In East and Southern Africa the figure is 25%, while in South Asia it is 22%.

The report also says adolescent pregnancies are increasing in the African countries where it occurs most often. There are 15 countries in the world, the report says, in which 30% or more of mothers are adolescents. In recent years, the rate of adolescent pregnancy has dropped in 8 of them but risen in 6. All 6 are in sub-Saharan Africa.

On average, the report says, 1 in 9 girls in developing countries is forced into marriage before age 15. In Chad and Niger, more than 1 in 3 girls is married before her 15th birthday, while in Ethiopia the figure is 1 in 6 girls.

The executive director of the fund, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, said in a press release accompanying the report that society too often blamed only the girls themselves for becoming pregnant.

"The reality," he said, "is that adolescent pregnancy is most often not the result of a deliberate choice, but rather the absence of choices, and of circumstances beyond a girl's control.

"It is a consequence of little or no access to school, employment, quality information and health care."

The fund said it advocated a holistic approach to tackling the problem, aimed at changing attitudes in society rather than the behaviour of girls.

"This includes: Keeping girls in school; stopping child marriage; changing attitudes about gender roles and gender equality; increasing adolescents' access to sexual and reproductive health, including contraception; and providing better support to adolescent mothers."

http://9jaflave..com/2013/10/child-mothers-set-to-double-by-2030-un.html

Re: Child Mothers Set To Double By 2030- UN by Kanwulia: 10:44pm On Oct 31, 2013
Too bad the men do not get pregnant!
The women are always stuck with 'em bastards!
Hallelujah to ABORTIONS! kiss
It is one thing to be born in poverty. . .and a grave insult upon that injurious state to bring a bastard into poverty too!
What a curse! cry

Ijjiots giving birth to ijjjiots! The curse of AFRICA!!!!
Monkeys do procreate for sure!
Twa!!!!

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