Abstract
Each year, thousands of teenagers and young adults confront (face) the problem of an early pregnancy – wanted or unwanted. Nowadays, this phenomenon is regularly highlighted by Medias or scientific reports as an epidemic social issue in our modern society. But in many developed countries teenage pregnancies have gradually decreased for the last 50 years; “the number of teenage pregnancies has decreased, however, the public perceptions of it has sharply increased”(UNICEF report….).
A teenage pregnancy is a pregnancy below the age of 20 (here we are going to talk about pregnancies between 14 years old and 19). Nonetheless those pregnancies are an increasing issue today. Indeed, motherhood is something nearly all women expect to achieve in their life but only in a social context considered as “normal” while teenage pregnancies is a phenomenon seen as something abnormal, inappropriate and as an adult activity; so in our society we often talk about “underage sex”. Sex is still associated as an appropriate activity only in a marriage situation.
Yet in our contemporary society teenagers are sexually active younger and younger what is bothering more and more people today (while during the past centuries, teenage sexuality and pregnancy was something “normal”). Indeed sexual activities is now considered as a personal achievement; there are several rites of passages such as leaving of familial home, professional and social integration, first boyfriends/girlfriends, cohabitation, marriage, etc.
