Pregnancy will also include all pregnancy outcomes; births, abortions, and miscarriages. The research will be conducted in a quantitative manner, and collecting information through surveys. .
Literature and Theoretical Framework .
When addressing the issue of childhood sexual abuse and if it qualifies as a risk factor through research there are two key issues you must review. The first is teen pregnancy; the prevalence, the potential effects on both the mother and the child's life trajectories. The second issue is the sexual abuse portion and its' potential effects on the victim as well. This portion of proposal recapitulates the academic literature that researches and discusses the potential negative outcomes resulting from childhood sexual abuse and potential sexual behavior that may increase the risk of pregnancy during adolescence and including their limitations. .
The prevalence of teen pregnancy according to the article Prevalence and Characteristics of Teen Motherhood in Canada "it is estimated that 40,000 adolescent girls become pregnant every year and about half of them give birth"(Al-Sahab, Bohr, Connolly, Heifetz, Tamim; 2011) a pregnancy during adolescence can have negative consequences for both the mother and the child. There is a plethora of empirical evidence that there are negative implications for the mother, child and the community when an adolescent becomes pregnant. These implications include physical complication which adolescents are more likely to experience than mothers who are older at the time of their pregnancy these include; anemia, hypertension, unsafe abortion, postpartum depression, and maternal death, the implications for the child may include lower birth weight, premature birth and adverse developmental outcomes, although there has been no finite causal relationship (Dillard, Frank, Noll, Putnam, Sickel; 2014). Socioeconomically these individuals are less likely to achieve finishing Secondary and postsecondary education therefore giving the individual an socioeconomically disadvantage that could lead to various other problems such as low income, drug abuse and homelessness (Deardorff, Lahiff, Ozer, Young; 2010).