Adolescent pre-marital pregnancy : the impregnator and marriage as a resolution

This paper examines marriage as a resolution to adolescent pre-marital pregnancy. Marriage is mainly decided by the male impregnators and not the pregnant adolescents. The older age of the impregnators relative to the pre-marital pregnant adolescents is related to employment which provides for the f...

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Main Author: Nadzirah Azman
Other Authors: Tam Chen Hee
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2010
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-226592019-12-10T12:38:22Z Adolescent pre-marital pregnancy : the impregnator and marriage as a resolution Nadzirah Azman Tam Chen Hee School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences This paper examines marriage as a resolution to adolescent pre-marital pregnancy. Marriage is mainly decided by the male impregnators and not the pregnant adolescents. The older age of the impregnators relative to the pre-marital pregnant adolescents is related to employment which provides for the financial ground for child caretaking responsibilities to be carried out. In turn, the financially dependent pregnant adolescents then perceive marriage merely as a resolution to provide for child caretaking finances, influencing further family expansion for the young adolescent family. Bachelor of Arts 2010-04-01T03:20:59Z 2010-04-01T03:20:59Z 2010 2010 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/22659 en Nanyang Technological University 33 p. application/pdf
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Adolescent pre-marital pregnancy : the impregnator and marriage as a resolution
description This paper examines marriage as a resolution to adolescent pre-marital pregnancy. Marriage is mainly decided by the male impregnators and not the pregnant adolescents. The older age of the impregnators relative to the pre-marital pregnant adolescents is related to employment which provides for the financial ground for child caretaking responsibilities to be carried out. In turn, the financially dependent pregnant adolescents then perceive marriage merely as a resolution to provide for child caretaking finances, influencing further family expansion for the young adolescent family.
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author Nadzirah Azman
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title Adolescent pre-marital pregnancy : the impregnator and marriage as a resolution
title_short Adolescent pre-marital pregnancy : the impregnator and marriage as a resolution
title_full Adolescent pre-marital pregnancy : the impregnator and marriage as a resolution
title_fullStr Adolescent pre-marital pregnancy : the impregnator and marriage as a resolution
title_full_unstemmed Adolescent pre-marital pregnancy : the impregnator and marriage as a resolution
title_sort adolescent pre-marital pregnancy : the impregnator and marriage as a resolution
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