{"id":778601,"date":"2020-01-08T15:40:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T15:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2020\/01\/08\/dzodze-queen-mother-fetes-children-cautions-them-against-teenage-pregnancy\/"},"modified":"2020-01-08T15:40:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T15:40:23","slug":"dzodze-queen-mother-fetes-children-cautions-them-against-teenage-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/08\/dzodze-queen-mother-fetes-children-cautions-them-against-teenage-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dzodze Queen mother fetes children, cautions them against teenage pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/NewsArticle\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- google_ad_section_start --><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tPrint<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"story-date\">Wednesday 8th January, 2020<\/h4>\n<div class=\"image-box\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"main\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/teenage-pregnancy.jpg\" alt=\"Mama Agbaledzokpui II - Teenage Pregnancy\"\/><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span style=\"display:none\" itemprop=\"description\">news, story, article<\/span><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">By<br \/>\nCaleb Kuleke, GNA<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Dzodze (V\/R), Jan.<br \/>\n8, GNA \u2013 Mama Agbaledzokpui II, Queen Mother of Dzodze Afetefe in the Ketu<br \/>\nNorth Municipality of the Volta Region, has organised an annual get-together<br \/>\nfor children in the traditional area and called on them to desist from acts<br \/>\nthat could result in teenage pregnancy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">She said teenage<br \/>\npregnancy continues to frustrate the future of children in the traditional area<br \/>\nand asked them to attend to their academic demands to become responsible future<br \/>\nleaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Mama Agbaledzokpui<br \/>\nalso cautioned them against drug abuse, armed robbery and early marriages<br \/>\nsaying such acts would destroy their future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">She advised parents<br \/>\nand other stakeholders to ensure that proper care is given to children and<br \/>\ntheir needs provided so they could concentrate on their academic work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The queen mother<br \/>\nexpressed concern at the lack of sanitary facilities and libraries in some<br \/>\nschools in the Municipality and called on authorities to address the situation<br \/>\nto make the school environment appealing to children. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Mama Agbaledzokpui<br \/>\npromised to sustain the sensitisation effort against teenage pregnancy in the<br \/>\narea through school visits, community durbars and radio programmes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The Ghana<br \/>\nDemographic and Health Survey (GDHS) of 2014 says about 4.1 per cent of<br \/>\nteenagers in the Volta Region are pregnant with their first child and 18 per<br \/>\ncent of teenagers have already had a live birth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The National<br \/>\nPopulation Council says the situation, apart from contributing to high<br \/>\nfertility in the region, could lead to several reproductive health<br \/>\ncomplications among adolescents and their children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:&#10;EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA\">GNA<\/span><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"IL_IN_TAG\" value=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Go to www.addthis.com\/dashboard to customize your tools --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Print Wednesday 8th January, 2020 news, story, article By Caleb Kuleke, GNA Dzodze (V\/R), Jan. 8, GNA \u2013 Mama Agbaledzokpui II, Queen Mother of Dzodze Afetefe in the Ketu North Municipality of the Volta Region, has organised an annual get-together for children in the traditional area and called on them to desist from acts that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":778602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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