I recall my adolescence and first youth, in the same stage and with the friends of the childhood; the first holidays of 15, the first declarations of love, an amazing period.

But, I also think how it should be, if instead of living that way I had become pregnant before my 20s. And I cannot even imagine it, that is true.

These years of primary and secondary studies are, first, to study, without forgetting the recreation, the friends, and especially the family, that one that guides, supports and helps. Without being a specialist in the topic I know that the adolescence brings with it diverse attitudes and up to sleep excess in not little occasions, that's why I put myself in the place of very young girl with desires of sleeping, sharing... and, instead of it, to have to deal with her baby, nurse him at any time. For much she adores him she is going to think that the sacrifice is great, when in fact this sacrifice is never going to be too much.

During 2014, in the province of Camagüey, out of 8 333 receptions of pregnancies, 1 576 were in 20-year-old minors, 18.91 %; among the municipalities of major impact we find Jimaguayú, Santa Cruz del Sur, Esmeralda and Nuevitas. The pregnancy at early ages in the first trimester of 2015 is supported in numbers, more or less like those of 2014. Out of 2 547 pregnant registered, 482 were younger than 20 years, 18.9 %.

It is impossible to talk about this without tackling the abortion. The young girls not few times incited by her couple, chooses the interruption of the pregnancy like contraceptive method, fat error, since it can leave tremendous aftermath, even the unfertility, and at the time of wanting to give birth, then they cannot.

Citing as an example the number of abortions for every 100 childbearings during the first trimester of the year in this group, it ascended from 107.8 (282 interruptions) to 133.1 (335), a very high indicator. The municipalities of Guáimaro, Camagüey and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes are those that more cases contribute. And over the provincial average are Sierra de Cubitas, Jimaguayú, Florida, Santa Cruz del Sur, Guáimaro, Najasa and Esmeralda.

It turns out to be an illustrative to knowledge that 157 secondary basic students have dropped the school for being pregnant; other 109 went out of the educational system because they gave birth. This does not stay here, later, with scarce or any education, they have less opportunities to find a job and in time they turn into a load for the social assistance.

This is a problem of the entire world. Approximately 16 million girls between 15 and 19 years give birth every year, mostly in nations of low or medium income, according to information of the World Health Organization (WHO), and the complications associated with the state of gestation and the childbearing are the second cause of death between the young people.

Dissimilar can be the actions to be adopted by Public Health, Education, but the family is irreplaceable. This one has to play an important role. There, in the house, it is where there are learned the habits of conduct, respect, what is good and what is not.

Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez

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