ACCORDING to the Commission on Population and Development (PopCom), there are around 1.2 million teens having babies over a 10-year period. About 30,000 of these young mothers have repeated pregnancies. Moreover, according to PopCom Undersecretary and Executive Director Juan Antonio Perez 3rd, teenage pregnancies cause P33 billion in economic losses.

Although it is incumbent upon the parents, guardians or those who exercise parental authority to properly raise their kids, all of us should exert effort in stopping teen pregnancies because, in one way or another, we are all affected by it. Teen pregnancy may happen to one’s sister, daughter, granddaughter, niece, female cousin or goddaughter.