Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Give a Young Girl Options

PLEASE! PLEASE! Consider sponsoring a girl in Junior High, High School, or even University in 2011!

Today's newspaper in Guatemala printed these statistics: Prensa Libre (http://www.aula2pl.com/secciones/alarma/)

Sexually Active Youth:
The numbers of adolescents having sexual relations and the consequences are very alarming!

The following statistics have been registered just in 2010:
The young giving birth:
- 3,926 new mothers who gave birth this year were just 19 years old.
- 2,876 new mothers who gave birth this year were just  17 years old.
- 2,811 new mothers who gave birth this year were just 18 years old.
- 2,019  new mothers who gave birth this year were just 16 years old.

- 1,057  new mothers who gave birth this year were just  15 years old.


Pregnancies among children:  In the first 8 months of this year, 2010, there have been 680 pregnancies among girls 10 to 14 years old.  It is important to highlight that it is presumed that at least half of these pregnancies were the results of a rape.

▪ Premature Unions: Half of young women start a formal or consensual sexual relationship before their 20 years.
Alert!  Adolescents and young people (13-20) make up 69% of the population of Guatemala.

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