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YEAR: 1983

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Needs of youth in family planning: the problem in Latin America. A equivocal

policy: putting the cart before the horse. [Necesidades de los jovenes en

planificacion familiar: el problema en America Latina. Una politica

equivocada: poner la carreta delante de los bueyes.]

AUTHORS

Gomensoro A

SOURCE

[Unpublished] May 1983. Presented at the Meeting of the Regional Council of the

FIPF-RHO, Mexico City, May 14, 1983. 9 p.

ABSTRACT

The increasingly young ages at which sexual activity begins and the rising rates of adolescent pregnancy with its

severe physical, social, and economic problems are by now well known in Latin America. The explanation of the

problem and the near impossibility of resolving it stem from the social unacceptability of contraceptive use by

adolescents, a factor which foredooms to failure most programs to curb adolescent pregnancy. The unacceptability

of contraceptive use by adolescents should, therefore, be defined as the problem and struggled against. The lack of

acceptability of contraceptive use is the practical expression of a repressive ideology which condones sexual

discrimination against women. Latin American society, which has always validated recreational sex for males of any

age and is recently permitting recreational sex for adult women, roundly refuses to permit it for young women. Such

a double standard shows how far discrimination against women has survived, despite all the rhetoric about equality

of rights and opportunities. Young women will not use contraception until their social and cultural surroundings

validate contraceptive usage. The required policy for dealing with adolescent pregnancy will move from recognizing

the fact of early sexual experience, to acceptance of the fact, to social validation of the fact. Only when the

undeniable and unchangeable fact of early sexual experience is recognized, accepted, and socially validated will

contraceptive programs for adolescents become viable. The task of the International Planned Parenthood Federation

should be to do everything possible to promote this decisive ideological change from repression of sexuality in

young women to validation of it. The priority of programs to prevent adolescent pregnancy is part of a larger priority:

that of struggling on all fronts for an effective liberation of women, questioning of traditional roles and achieving for

women the same status and personal dignity enjoyed by males in their sexual and procreative lives. (PubHealth.info

Document ID: CONT5T 2024-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Needs of youth in family planning: the problem in Latin

America. A equivocal policy: putting the cart before the horse. [Necesidades de los jovenes en planificacion

familiar: el problema en America Latina. Una politica equivocada: poner la carreta delante de los bueyes.]", is(are)

Gomensoro A. The source of this article is "[Unpublished] May 1983. Presented at the Meeting of the Regional

Council of the FIPF-RHO, Mexico City, May 14, 1983. 9 p.". This article was published in 1983 in Spanish

language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT5T 2024-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 22024

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