The nurse is giving a community presentation about adolescent pregnancy. Which presentation statement most accurately reflects a challenge of pregnancy associated with early adolescence?

Question

1. "Pregnancy is less likely to be related to an intimate relationship."
2. "Girls in this stage have developed value systems that are separate and distinct from those of their parents."
3. "Most often, when a girl in early adolescence enters the healthcare system, she will be accompanied by the father of the baby."
4. "Self-consciousness about body changes related to pregnancy usually isn't an issue for early adolescents."

Answer 1

Correct Answer: 1
Rationale 1: For early adolescents, pregnancy is probably not the result of an intimate relationship.
Rationale 2: The early adolescent's value system still closely reflects that of parents, so she turns to her parents for a decision or approval of a decision.
Rationale 3: During early adolescence, a pregnant girl generally enters the healthcare system with an adult, most likely her mother; parents are still seen as locus of control.
Rationale 4: Along with self-consciousness about normal physiologic changes, for early adolescents, self-consciousness and low self-esteem are likely to intensify with rapid breast enlargement and abdominal enlargement of pregnancy.