1. We choose the subject Teen pregnancy. We would like to know more about this subject. How do they deal in the Netherlands with teen pregnancy, and how about dealing with pregnancy in Kenya? Are teen mothers accepted in Keya? And in the Netherlands? Are there institutions to get help when you are a teen mother? A lot of questions. We are doing research on the internet, contact students from Kenya to ask them more information about this subject, and we are going to talk to a real teen mother. On this way we can make the subject clear to everybody. A teen mother is a girl that give birth to a child before her 20th birthday. The Netherlands is one of the countries with the smallest number of teen mothers in the World. The reason is because there is good information about how to get pregnant, and there are lots of preventatives available. Round 2500 girls a year gets pregnant under the 20 years. Some teen mothers are able enough to deal with their pregnancy. But a lot of teen mothers –and fathers have to deal a lot more problems than only a pregnancy. The Netherlands has the lowest number of teen pregnancy from Europe. There are a few reasons for. One, and maybe the important reason, is the information to the teenagers. In the Netherlands are a lot of campaigns and organizations where the teenagers are able to ask questions about sex. In some other countries, the people didn’t give the teenagers some information about protect themselves to pregnancy and diseases. For example, the number of teen pregnancy in Kenya (and also in other countries in Africa) is higher than in the Netherlands (and the rest of Europe). 1. 1.Femke Klapwijk (SW1F) 2. 2.Evelien van Benten (SW1..) 3. Zoë … (SW1..) 4. Sascha Hooijer (SW1F) Charmaine (15) form Den Helder is pregnant for the second time. Her daughter from 7 months old is short to her birth placed in a foster home. The relationship with both of the fathers is bad, you can say that both pregnancies weren’t planed. To keep the second baby, Charmaine has to find a solution for shelter and finance. She doesn’t want to live her mother any more, she was addicted to alcohol and drugs and her father passed away. The cause of being a teen mother or being pregnant in an early (life)stage is most of the time not being informed about sex education and also about sexually transmitted diseases. You could define this one as the important one. Further causes are: Not being informed about menstruation cycles, many teenagers haven’t safe sex because they think they wouldn’t be pregnant; Having intercourse under influence of alcohol and drugs; Having intercourse under pressure of friends (peer-pressure); Teenagers have the drift to experimenting; Bah home situation. There are a lot consequences of being a teen mother. It is kind of a fulltime job that you’ll have to fulfill very well. The experience is that all your free time is over. Your contact with friends is fading and there start financial problems. In many cases there is no contact with the father of the child, so the mother has to do it on her own. IntroductionStatistics and facts Services Personal story Authors On this picture you see the births per 1000 women between 15-19 years old in the year 2002. In the Netherlands is the number 0-5 per 1000 women, in Kenya is the number 50-99 per 1000 women. That is a big difference. Also you can see that the problem of teen pregnancy in cental Africa and in South Africa is extremely. Teen pregnancy in the Netherlands and Kenya Siriz Siriz is a insertion where teen mothers living together with their child for not more than nine months. Siriz is a foundation and helps teen mothers with daily activities. Every teen mother gets a personal mentor who helps to get structure in the daily life. Together they make a plan which make clear what the teen mom needs and wants to learn. Teen mothers will be prepared to live a independent life with their child. The insertion had a clear day structure and a daily program where every teen mother has to participate. Visit from family and friends is possible, but a couple times a week at set times. Siriz is not a free foundation. When you are living at the insertion, you have to pay accommodation expenses. Staying at the insertion costs €575,00 a month. This is including rent, food, gas, water and electricity. Fiom Fiom is a rural organization for teen mothers. Teen mothers has been admitted in this organization for help, information and advice. The organization will not give help, they give only advice. When there is need for more help, the organization will refer the teen mother to an other organization. There are many facilities for teen mothers in the Netherlands. These two organizations are located everywhere in the Netherlands. Teen mothers can also get help from their municipality.(gemeente?) Every municipality have their own services for teen mothers, or they will be redirect to an other organization close to their residence. A few of the offering for teen mothers are: leger des heils, CJG, Arosa, Foundation IKS. Cause and consequences Personal story Mariska(16) from Dordrecht lives with her mother, her father passed away. They define Mariska as a ‘problemchild’, she is send away from school, she is addicted to alcohol and drugs. Then she appears pregnant from her boyfriend Michel who is 17 years old. Mariska takes the decision to keep the baby, but her boyfriend and mother don’t agree.