青少女生育，有什麼問題？

本文討論未滿二十歲的青少女生育被視為社會、公衛、人口問題的脈絡，並討論青少女生育作為問題，可能導致的影響：1）忽略青少女媽媽的多元需求，2）忽略族群生育差異，3）污名化和泛標籤化，4）婦女淪為生殖的工具。青少女生育是跨領域的議題，難以進行範疇的切割。最後，作者提出相關建議，以期待一個更符合人民需求的青少女生育政策。以社會層面而言，福利同等、照顧弱勢是基本原則。早婚早育者的女性或許和主流的生殖意識型態有所差異，但身為一個公民，她們的需求應獲得同等的重視；生育補助的年齡條款應該要解除。就公共衛生政策而言，我們應該繼續朝普及避孕知識及方法的方向努力，讓沒有懷孕生子計畫的女性，不用承擔非預期懷孕的後果；比起｢預防青少女懷孕｣，我們認為｢減少負面的生育結果｣，是一個更具人權與切實際的的衛生政策。不論已婚或未婚少女媽媽，社會應該給予支持，不應貼標籤或加以污名化。政府政策應該把個人生育行為決定權還給個人，才不會讓婦女做為一個自由意志的主體失去意義。

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This paper discusses the context of Taiwanese teen childbearing as a social, population, and public health problem. This classification might cause the following issues of concern: 1) ignorance of the needs of teen mothers, 2) ignorance of differential fertility rates among teen mothers, 3) stigmatization and over-generalization, 4) women as vehicles of reproduction. This paper suggests the needs of teen mothers should be analyzed and provided for; the age limitation of birth stipends should be rescinded. Furthermore, contraceptive knowledge and methods should be made publically available to all teens. Our public health policy should aim to reduce adverse birth outcomes of pregnancy rather than to prevent teen pregnancy in general. Teen mothers should be supported instead of stigmatized and negatively labeled by the society. Finally, the social control over birth behavior should be relaxed; then, women can execute their free will on giving births.

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