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Home > Resources > Motherhood in Childhood: The Untold Story

Motherhood in Childhood: The Untold Story

Posted on July 12, 2022

This report examines trends in adolescent childbearing using techniques that focus on the most vulnerable girls, including child mothers, girls with repeat adolescent childbearing, and births that occur in dangerously quick succession. It finds that nearly one third of all women in low- and middle-income countries begin childbearing in adolescence (i.e., at age 19 years and younger), and nearly half of first births to adolescents are to child mothers aged 17 years and younger. Read More

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