Teen pregnancies and their implications on health and education in India According to the world’s first comprehensive study done by the Lancet to ascertain the link between teenage pregnancy and child malnutrition in India, teen mothers are more likely to possess stunted and underweight children than adult mothers. Teen pregnancy puts a young mother’s life in peril while damaging the baby’s growth and development before and after birth. India is home to at least one in five adolescents and one in three stunted children within the world. this is often corroborated by the study published by The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health; stunting and underweight prevalence are 11% points higher in children born to teenage girls than in adult mothers. Samuel Scott, the study’s co-author from I...
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