Dejene Demissie, T: Adolescent Motherhood in Ethiopia

Adolescents are the futures of a nation. The personal characteristics they develop in due course does have a great impact on achievement of the highest welfare of their future adult life. Thus, the quality of their future life could be hampered by the socioeconomic opportunities and constraints they currently face. Even though evidence from all over the world indicate that there has been a decline in the level of adolescent motherhood, the decline was evident only in urban areas and among educated women. However, in economically less developed countries the great majority of the population lives in rural areas where the large portoin of them are illiterate. Consequently, governments, educators and other concerned organizations should take the initiative to educate women above a primary level of education. Education solves so many problems of a society apart from adolescent pregnancy and motherhood. In short, the finding of this paper is contained in the saying ‘educate women for a better tomorrow‘.