The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) invites members of the media to attend its Provincial Investigation into the extent of teenage pregnancy in the Northern Cape, and the response mechanisms ...

StatsSA and the Department of Basic Education recently revealed the number of young girls who had given birth in the last ...

Blantire (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of single mothers is a reality that affects many women in Malawi. In most districts in the southern part of Malawi, it is customary that when girls reach a ...

It was a hot afternoon in a small village in the Savannah Region. A mother, Ama, sat outside folding clothes. Her daughter, ...

(Nairobi) – Adolescent girls in nearly one-third of African countries who are pregnant face significant legal and policy barriers to continuing their formal education, Human Rights Watch said today.

MPs have urged young people to take charge of their future by embracing reproductive health services and rejecting behaviours that lead to teenage pregnancy, describing the issue as a national concern ...

According to Statistics South Africa, over 123,000 births were recorded among mothers aged 19 and under between January 2024 ...

The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the Western world (Holcombe, Peterson & Manlove, 2009), and most of these pregnancies are unintentional (Thomas, 2012). Teen mothers are less ...

Experts are warning parliament that South Africa’s mandatory reporting laws, meant to protect children, may be ...

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