Images of adolescent pregnancy: interpreting sexual and reproductive health.

ABSTRACT

The issue of teenage pregnancies has become a public health problem and is the order of the day in national and international politics. With a theoretical background of two different images of the adolescent pregnancy, and the concepts of autonomy and responsibility,
a research was done about the attribution of responsibility for teenage pregnancies in a population of 22 students from a school in Barranquilla, Colombia. The interviews allowed inferring that the majority of young people transfer responsibility to parents and teachers,
an issue that calls into question the type of education received by those youngsters.