How to Effectively Manage the Crisis in the Case of a Teenage Abortion

Adolescent abortion is, unfortunately, a common phenomenon and is also an extremely difficult endeavor that they have to go through. Especially because young women do not usually have an adult to talk to, their parents are often ignorant in such situations. In the case of abortion, the adolescent will only have a partner - if present - and friends of the same age as moral support.

The couple's relationship is of particular importance in the case of teenage abortion. The partner's behavior in managing a crisis such as an unwanted pregnancy influences both the later evolution of the relationship and the young woman's attitude towards the situation itself: the partner's support is the main factor in managing the abortion situation and avoiding depression.

But not always the partner is present, usually, he is just a scared child who will run away from responsibilities. If he is with the girl, there is a chance that the relationship will not suffer major consequences after the abortion operation, the partners continuing their daily life normally.

Your partner's support is especially important in overcoming depression. The decision to resort to abortion is in these cases taken by mutual agreement, neither of the partners being forced to compromise.

Adolescent abortion has serious consequences leading to depression and acute negative states. If the partner runs away from responsibility and leaves the young woman to fend for herself, the relationship deteriorates after the abortion, but it is not the operation itself that determines this, but the rejection behavior and the lack of communication of the partner. Thus, the girl is left alone in her situation, without the most necessary emotional support.

As for the family of origin, its members will often not find out what happened, because they would have seen the practice of abortion in adolescents as deviant behavior, thus leading to conflicts. Most of the time, the girl does not even bother to turn to the financial or emotional support of the family (parents), for fear of being rejected, considered immoral and irresponsible.

Unfortunately, many young women in this situation do not even turn to friends for emotional support, wanting to hide the whole experience for fear of being labeled negatively, or out of the feeling that they could not change the situation at all.

But even if they have a close friend, finding a replacement for their partner is not effective, as their help is less significant in avoiding post-abortion depression.

Adolescent abortion affects their entire further development because if they go through it at an uncertain time in their lives - uncertain about the emotional side, they will be negatively influenced by it for a long time: feelings of guilt and insecurity, in the sense doubts about their traits as future parents, insecurity about their qualities as a mother, resentment that they had to go through this situation alone - or almost alone -.

The management of the situation and the long-term effects of adolescent abortion differ significantly from the age at which this experience is consumed.

The most difficult route is followed by young women with the youngest age at the time of the abortion experience (14–16 years), following that, as age and experience increase, the negative effects decrease in intensity (16–19 years). It also depends on the global context in which the experience takes place: the social environment, the principles of life, personality, relationships, how to relate to life in general, values, lifestyles.

If an attempt is made to draw a graph that follows the specific structure of the period before the operation, the one during the experiment, and the one after about a few months, the graph would have the shape of a "U", in the sense that it starts from in a normal, life-friendly situation (constant line), there is a fall with the news of the unwanted pregnancy and an even more sudden fall with the operation (downward curve) after which it enters a slow process of lifting - return to normal (ascending line).

Girls who are most prone to long-term trauma are young; The world of a teenager often prevents a young woman from researching in depth the significance of abortion and the impact it will have on her future.

Abortion in adolescents also leads to serious physical effects, many of which are listed in specialized papers, including post-abortion infections, which can lead to the onset of infertility over time or can cause premature births or ectopic pregnancies.

Another major danger in abortion is a perforated uterus or other complications: loss of regular menstrual cycle, increased prenatal mortality, hepatitis, cervical injury, perforation of the uterus, bleeding, damage to the intestines or other abdominal organs, inflammation of the uterus, fallopian tubes, pelvis and the entire abdominal cavity, septic condition ("blood poisoning"), thromboembolism (blood clots that block blood vessels), blockage of the fallopian tubes, irregular uterine bleeding, increased frequency of ectopic pregnancies, narrowing of the cervix.

But most importantly, abortion in adolescents, especially if they are forced to go through this terrible experience without the support of their partner, can lead to serious psychosocial problems and specific behavioral disorders: deviant behaviors, such as alcohol consumption. , drugs, smoking, use of antidepressants, unbalanced diet.