ADOLESCENTS' CHILD DELIVERIES AND THEIR DEMOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS

Abstract

In the period from 1982 to 1999 at the territory of the Jablanica county theoverall number of child deliveries decreased from 3056 to 2295. At the same time, thenumber of adolescents giving birth increased for 2 to 3%. With the Romanies thenumber of deliveries increased on the whole, while with the adolescent girls thenumber increased for 3%. Therefore, the number of deliveries declined onlyregarding the mature Serbian girls whose number was smaller for 824. In the givenperiod the number of the artificially completed deliveries increased as related, amongother things, with the increased body mass at birth. The results of the adolescents'deliveries lead us to conclude that adolescence is not a period suitable for child-birth.Likewise, the number of congenital anomalies does not justify the routine cytogeneticfetus analysis otherwise recommended to them.

Keywords

• Adolescence
• pregnancy
• child delivery