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The old Filipino tradition of marriage before full moon comes

with its modern version of marriage after a honeymoon. Worse,


teenagers are most likely to engage to the latter.

This paper will serve as an eye opener for the present


generation who hurdle twice the battle than the past generations of
conservativeness. Due to many pressure, less attention, and other
factors contributing to their unwanted growth, these children have
had, and will always have the most vulnerable state among any other
age group.

Tuguegarao City, as the most progressive city in the Province of


Cagayan was once a peaceful municipality of dreams. Our elders
used to tell tales and stories of old kalye comercio having Spanish
like structures and Kalesas as mode of transportation in roaming
around the municipality. Despite their wrinkled skins and blurry
vision, is a clear past of cherished youth. They said it was so perfect
until the start of war. Indeed, only war between military troops and
New People’s Army (NPA) caused trauma to some. But today, as we
relate our elders’ simple yet comfortable life, to this very ambitious
era, we can conclude that traumas due to various aspects kill
teenagers not only on the outside, but on the inside driving them to
vulnerability.

Seventy percent of Tuguegarao City’s population which is


equivalent to 107,451 teenagers roam around the city everyday. Most
of them wearing their respective school uniforms and some are either
members of the labor force or the league of pregnant women.
Saddening, but it is today’s reality in Tuguegarao City, alone.

On the Philippine setting, one in ten young Filipino women age


15-19 has begun childbearing: 8 percent are already mothers and
another 2 percent are pregnant with their first child according to the
results of the 2013 National Demographic and Health Survey
(NDHS).

According to the 2002 Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Study


by the University of the Philippines Population Institute (UPPI) and
the Demographic Research and Development Foundation, 26 percent
of our Filipino youth nationwide from ages 15 to 25 admitted to
having a premarital sex experience. What’s worse is that 38 percent
of our youth are already in a live-in arrangement.

It is quite alarming that with the increase of mortality rate in


the Philippines, comes the increase of all expenses necessary to keep
a family safe, comfortable, and well nourished; but with their

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incapable physical and mental state, would teenage parents survive a
life of child rearing?

There are three (3) main focus of this study:

1. Education – which aims to determine the differences of their


academic status before and after being a parent.
2. Socioeconomic –

The teenagers’ Socioeconomic, Work, and Educational status after


their chosen path. This study considered the stance of both boy and
girl in the life of being a parent at a young age.

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