Objective: To identify reasons for teenage pregnancy. Method: Comparative study, with 34 pregnant teenagers of rural area (n1), and 34 of urban area (n2) obtained in a simple random way. The applied instrument "The survey for pregnant women". Descriptive statistics were used to determine mean, median, range (mn-mx), standard deviation, standard error and 95% confidence interval, as well as obtaining absolute and relative frequencies, the inferential statistics used, Pearson's X2, with alpha of 0.05. Results: Reasons expressed were; in rural areas, 32.4% of pregnant adolescents said "They did not know about the different contraceptive methods that currently exist", versus 17.6% in urban areas. 29.4% of rural adolescents, "Feel curious / all my friends did it", 8.8% of urban. Another reason "Thus I showed love to my partner", 20.6% were from the rural area and 23.7% from the urban area. Conclusion: teenagers get pregnant, because they do not know the importance and use of contraceptive methods, likewise some adolescents report never having received information about pregnancy, which conditions them to a higher risk, even predisposes a second pregnancy.
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