The six-week old has a right indirect inguinal hernia. But my global interest was arrested not by this baby boy but her mother. A fifteen year-old who was previously enrolled as sophomore high school student and stopped school to deliver her baby boy into this war-stricken and polluted world last October. Statistics say that getting pregnant approaches the nearest age women experience their menarche. Alas, going younger and younger these days. I can still recall my sophomore days when I have this war in me to stay awake during the soporific hours. An hour before the 3 o’ clock habit. But take a look at this young mommy out of school nursing her son while her husband four years her senior is still in high school having hard time in high school trigonometry and physics.
Questions started to pop out of my mind like Jack-in-the-box. Springing out and trying to frighten the already startled consciousness. Why is it there a growing minority of women who get pregnant early in their flower age? A part of my “hu-mind” (human mind) tried to answer this query. But another Jack came out of the box. Pop! Who is it to blame in this case? And another one, pop! Is it rightful to blame? After three Jacks, Pop Goes the Weasel played.
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To answer these socially relevant intriguing questions, I had to browse Google and typed “why early pregnancy teenager” in the Search bar. An almost million hits revealed on my screen. On top of the list was from where-else-but Wikipedia. But I won’t show my fancy research here.
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