family tragedy in Latin America She is in hospital with severe pain for many hours, He has to wait outside, because the access is often not allowed. A normal situation in the delivery room in a state hospital in Ecuador. The special feature here is that she is 12 years old and he 15th Early pregnancies are not uncommon and in our mission hospital in the East, some first-time mothers are under 15. That girls in the jungle marry early, sometimes shortly after the onset of menstruation is culturally determined and normal. They are also mentally geared up to become a mother. Your mental and physical maturity is still close. The situation is different in so-called modern man, in which both developments are drifting further and further apart. In the above cases is there But to young people from the city. Their families are torn. And for the most part there are emigrants families where one parent works at least in North America or Spain and learn the little child support. It is often the grandparents who are raising them.
de 80% are first-time mothers under 18 in the southern highlands of Ecuador emigrant children. Here
numbers from a maternity hospital of Cuenca in southern Ecuador. From January to June 2010 were 992 children born to mothers over 18 years, while 973 children of mothers under 18, under which 19 of 14 - year-olds. This is an Increasing sample of secondary schools in which a number of girls ernstzunehemnde pregnant or breast-feeding children. How as a normal instruction is to be held? How much respect can you have to exercise it?
These young people are often not only not prepared for their new mission in life, they are often abandoned by the family. With them is the mental and physical maturity far separated in time and make a great maturity process. Many will naturally think of an abortion, although prohibited by law in Ecuador carried out, but in practice often. But that costs money, which have least.
What would be the solution of the problem? Some call loudly for the free government-sanctioned abortion. But that is unthinkable for many in this country - at least today yet. Others call in the media increased awareness of sexuality. I doubt that this really solves the problem. The previous results demonstrated Aufkläung in schools rather the opposite. Young people need good role models. If parents are separated or away, no one is home and that they receive no emotional attention, not surprisingly, when looking at the same age? And they need behind the support of the family to at least complete their school. Because the result is a young mother, often the male partner in the lurch, who is also immature, the voltages of the connection can not stand young and goes. Then the mother fails with Gelegenheitsarbeitehn through the stages completed in school or even a secondary education. It is to advocate for themselves and their child and learn to get along without a man. Men themselves do not learn to take responsibility are weak, have to use alcohol in order to prove their manhood and that we have inherited the Latin American Society of matriarchy a generation ahead.
María is once again pregnant. As an experienced mother, she knows that you should not so quickly go to the hospital. There they wait for hours but only in the hallway or even be sent home again. But the pain came and that several obstacles. 
