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Latin America is losing its maternity status

09 March 2019, 20:09 BDT

Was celebrating Nunaz at the kitchen. Her physical shape was telling, she is going to be a mother. The 18-year-old girl's full name Radhasis Martinez Nunze As he was talking, a nude child, two years old, was moving around him. The child is Nunez's son. I was trying to remove him because I was disturbed by my mother. Nunaz said that at the age of 15, he first became pregnant. The boy's father died in a motorcycle accident The child of the womb is another of her companion. Nunja used to go to school, but she did not return to studying after childbirth.

The name of the country of Nunze is the Dominican Republic. A country in Latin America, full of natural beauty. Nunez's city is Istanbul The city on the south coast of the country is known as 'La Villa de las Belas', that is, 'City of Beauty'. However, the water resources of the city are filled with stigma in the city of childhood maternity There is no such impact on the fight against teenage motherhood around the world. Most girls are forced to accept maternal mortality on their teenage days. Two-fifths mothers are there The city's location in terms of teenage maternity rate after Africa.

In the city's nurse's words, being a mother at such a young age does not mean that the girls in the city are very beautiful. He blames the lack of proper knowledge of sexuality and rhetoric.

Latin American countries are similar to the state of Isbestan! One-third of Latin America's mother is already a mother before she turns 20. There is no reason to give birth to childbirth in adolescent girls in any region other than sub-Saharan Africa. In February last year, the United Nations Department of Population Funds (UNFPA), the United Nations Children's Organization (PAN), the Pan American Health Organization (PHO), the regional body of the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNFPA), expressed dissatisfaction with the high maternity of Latin American countries. In this situation, the risk of birth control and the violence against women were blamed for this situation. According to the report, between 2010 and 2015, the rate of child birth rate of every 1000 boys aged 15 to 19 years is 66.5 percent. Where in other countries of the world, the rate of childbirth of the same age group is 46 percent per thousand.

Latin America is the only region where maternity rates are rising among girls under the age of 15. In Latin America, the rate of mothers in girls under 15 years of age in Ecuador has increased three times from 1990 to 2012.

Governments in this region now realize that this is a problem. The National Plan has been adopted for a decade to reduce the rate of adolescent maternity. However, progress is slow in this sector. Low-age mothers and children bring bad results for the country. Mother's mortality under the age of 16 is four times higher than the 20-year-old mother. Women in Latin America are late in comparison to Africa and South Asia. As a result, adolescent mothers have to be single mothers. In Mexico, women are married at an average of 27 years of age. But there are about one-fourth of the 15 to 19-year-old mothers alone.

Due to being a mother at a young age, the professional life of those women is also hampered. According to a Brazilian study, women's participation in labor force is decreasing. Nancy was forced to leave the job while looking after the girl's child. In Dominican Republic, adolescent mothers are two years less in school compared to other girls. Less than half of them study at the university.

The culture of Latin America is encouraged to be a mother to a teenager. The government's move to change this situation is very less. Girls from poor families are more concerned about being a mother than studying. One-third of Dominic women leave school to be their mother.

According to Clare Bindis, professor of California at the University of California, some women consider pregnancy to be the first step in adulthood. According to them, if the mother is cared for, family attention is available. Evidence of this professor has been found in the words of Darlenis, a 16-year-old mother of Isbestani. The teenager said that if the mother comes, then the whole world is respected.

Again, many girls build new families to increase their safety in dangerous situations. They escaped with the help of boyfriend to get rid of the tortured family. 
World Bank's Rafael Carthage interviewed one of the less-than-less-elite mothers of El Salvador. At that time, he was surprised that half of those mothers were interested in pregnancy. 
Most of the teenage pregnancies come with a surprise. Many schools do not teach about sexual intercourse. Birth control is also not seen.

Ehtebanian Nunze said he wanted birth control through a clinic in the area but did not get it. There men pressure women to have sexual relations, and women have not learned to refuse it.

The Catholic Church has influences in Latin America. So there is no open discussion about sex in that way. Catholics and Evangelical churches in Honduras have strongly opposed the inclusion of sex education in the country's textbook last year. Churches protest against birth control. For these reasons, the government does not want to play a strong role in reducing maternity duties.

There are exceptions in this too. Textbooks 'Sexual Citizenship' has been started in a poor area's school in Bogotá, capital of the Colombian state. At the age of this, big students discuss sex education with small students. After this program, the pregnancy of the four thousand students of this school dropped from zero to 70 in one year.

They are trying to reduce the rate of pregnancy at the age of teens. In the last 15 years, they published a number of these plans. However, most of them are taken to the city than the rural areas. But the situation in the village is the most horrific. Sometimes the governments do not implement any of their plans. The two presidents of Argentina and Chile have promised to include sex education programs in their respective countries. It has been accepted in less than half of Argentina's provinces. And sex education in Chile's schools can not be heard. Although Mexico has announced a strategic plan in 2015, it is continuing to take responsibility for another organization to implement it. Venezuela did not implement even after planning in 2013. And now the country's political and economic status has become very formidable. The government stopped supplying contraceptives free of cost.

However, the exception is Haiti. There has been a significant reduction in maternal death in 30 years. The country is adjacent to the Dominican Republic. There are two countries that share the islands in the country. Although Haiti is the poorest in that region, there is less tendency for mothers among teenagers. The government is so weak that there are programs that discourage infant maternal activities from non-governmental organizations. Maybe that's why the programs are getting success. Because, non-governmental organizations are more sensitive to political pressure than to government agencies and are more efficient. In the last decade, maternal mortality has decreased in large numbers in Colombia. As the long-standing rebellion was over, the country got admission in guerrilla warrior-controlled areas. Teenage motherhood was very common in those areas. It is believed that this rate has decreased in government entrance. Source: The Economist, Reuters