Teenage pregnancy still a matter of concern

ACCORDING to a recent survey, 59 percent of Filipinos find teenage pregnancy the most pressing problem facing women today. The number was highest in Mindanao — 67 percent — possibly reflecting the fact that by the time they turn 20, female Mindanaoans are more likely than women of the same age in the Visayas and Luzon to have experienced childbirth.

The survey was conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) and commissioned by the Commission on Population and Development (Popcom). Popcom is urging President Rodrigo Duterte to declare the problem of teenage pregnancy a national priority.