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Teenage Pregnancy according to Oxford English Dictionary are Children between the ages of 13 to 19 that get pregnant. It also refers to girls who have not reached legal adulthood which varies across the world who become pregnant. .

Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest teenage pregnancy in the world (about 14.3%). []. In Nigeria, teenager pregnancy is more prevalent in the North compared to the Southern part of the country; 1 out of every 3 in the North as against 1 out of every 10 in the South.

Causes of teenage Pregnancy
Some of the known causes of teenage pregnancy in Nigeria are:
 * 1) Neglect: Millions of Children return from School to an empty house
 * 2) Ignorance: Many parents do not teach their Children sex education expecting Schools to do it and the Schools are not able to fulfil it as necessary
 * 3) Powerful effect of the Media; especially television on sexual materials
 * 4) Easy access to sexual material through the internet
 * 5) Poverty: Adult that take advantage of the the vulnerability of the teenager due to poverty
 * 6) Bad Company
 * 7) Sexual Abuse
 * 8) cultural and religious beliefs

Effects of Teenage Pregnancy

 * 1) Health complications: This includes weak pelvic bones, and even death
 * 2) Social Complications:
 * 3) Economic complications:
 * 4) Emotional problems
 * 5) Increased Illiteracy.In most cases the educational progress is truncated
 * 6) Unstable Marital life and abuse