20.10.2024
The voice of the interior

Most teenage mothers are poor

Academic/Unit: Lorena Bolzon, María Sol González.

3,3% of girls under 15 years of age reported having had a live-born child, within the poorest sector (first quintile) versus 0,2% of the richest sector (fifth quintile).
Regarding the educational level, the research of the Observatory of Human Development and Vulnerability of the Universidad Austral It explains that of the mothers under 20 years of age, 17% had up to an incomplete secondary education, while 3,16% had a complete secondary and polytechnic education.

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