Social and Cultural Practices Regarding Sequence of Adolescence Female Pregnancy at Schools and Collages: 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. Adolsent 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.