THE Commission on Population Development Region I (CPD-I) reported last week that Pangasinan has the most number cases of teenage pregnancy in the region.

Out of four provinces in the region, Pangasinan recorded 10 cases of live births among teenage moms in 2020, 43 in 2021, and 73 cases in 2022.

Dagupan City, is the top city in the region with the highest number of cases of early pregnancy.

This data was released by CPD-I’s Christine Padilla during a press conference last week.

Padilla said the CPD registered an upward trend in teenage pregnancy among girls, aged 15 and below and cited that out of 38 cases in the region in 2020, the number has ballooned to 80 in 2021, and 112 in 2022.

In sharp contrast, the number of  cases of pregnancy (live birth) from women aged 15 to 19 has decreased.

In 2020, there were 4,291, down to 3,712 in 2021, while there have been 3,754 live births in 2022 from women aged 15 to 19 years old.

The CPD-I attributes the increasing number of teenage pregnancies to easy accessible data, internet, and social media content particularly through adult websites. (Ahikam Pasion)

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