Social and Cultural Practices Regarding Sequence of Adolescence Female Pregnancy at Schools and Colleges: A Qualitative Ethnographic Case Studies

Abstract

The focus of the study is on adolescent pregnant females
and customary practices related to early marriages when they are
studying at schools and colleges. Children are capital and investment
of society, and adolescent pregnancy is against the spirit of
ethnography. Early marriages and anti-child marriages are rising
phenomena in the entire world. In this modern era, women’s
empowerment is a globalized subject. It’s become a hot issue because
adolescent girls have a baby at the same time, and they have to go to
school to get an education. Pakistani culture and norms impede
women’s basic rights, and women’s seclusion (in the shape of Pardah)
exists because the roots of hierarchy, feudal, and patriarchal systems
are still strong. Various traditions jeopardize Pakistani culture in the
contour of (Vani, lanai, Swara, and Sang Chati), etc. A qualitative
research study was conducted, and 12 cases from Punjab, Pakistan,
were analyzed using a purposive sampling technique. The result and
findings revealed that customary practices are imposed on female
adolescents and make them extensive adolescent mothers in
Pakistani society. On behalf of common customary practices,
adolescent mothers have to face domestic violence like children,
abuse, financial, economic, and psychological misuse, and sometimes
resolving feuds and conflicts. Adolescent girls suffer from different kinds
of tribulations regarding their education and career. For example,
their classmates and teachers consider such girls injudicious and
stereotyped. The present analysis concluded that adolescent mothers
knobbed gears during their education and also did every chore of the
household. The phenomenon of adolescent girls and pregnancy is
crucial, and the worst consequence of pubescent mothers is hurting
the global movement for women’s empowerment.