“Making Choices, Building Voices”
An official government report aims to provide an authoritative synthesis of results and issues ventilated in empirical works done on specific topic on population and development.
Topics:
I. The Youth: Our Responsibility and Our Hope
- Why the youth are an important
Development Concern?
II. Knowing and Understanding our Youth
- Socio-demographic profile, Social
Environment, youth and parental perception
III. Getting Concerned About the Reproductive Health of our Youth
- Views, Knowledge and Attitudes
- Sexual, Non-Sexual Multiple Risk Behaviors
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IV. Rethinking and Enriching our Youth Development Programs
What are we doing, what more do we need to do?
· 20 to 30% of voters will come from the youth sector.
· Through the SK, young people (15 to 21 yrs. Old) can directly participate at all levels of governance.
Future Parents
Of the estimated 1.7 million babies born every year, around 30 percent come from young women.
By age 24, each of our young women already bore one child, on average.
* Knowing and Understanding the Filipino Youth
Socio-Demographic Profile
Population | 15.1 |
Growth Rate | 2.11% |
Ratio | 102 males: 100 females |
Poverty level | 3 of 10 youth are poor |
Functional Literacy | 88% |
Employment | 20% of total no. of employed |
* Getting Concerned About the Reproductive Health of the Youth
Views, Knowledge and Attitudes
· Majority still prize virginity although an increasing trend towards more openness to issue is observed.
· Young people continue to look positively on marriage.
· There is an increasing tolerance for women engaging in PMS.
· Ninety-five percent are against abortion.
· 9 out of 10 youth believe the government should provide family planning services, and some 8 out of 10 think it proper that these services also be provided to the youth.
Knowledge about sexuality and fertility.
· Almost half of our youth were unaware that pregnancy was possible after only one sexual encounter.
· Only 2% were truly knowledgeable about the relationship of menstrual cycle with the safe and unsafe times to have sex.
· Awareness of AIDS for both sexes was near universal (95%). However, misconceptions on the curability of AIDS had worsened.
- Sexual, Non-Sexual and Multiple Risk-Behaviors
Premarital Sex (PMS)
· Around 23% or 2 out of 10 Filipino youth had premarital sex in 2002.
· Almost all (94%) who already had sex said they were unwilling and unprepared to become parents.
· PMS is highest in NCR and Eastern Visayas at nearly 4 out of 10 engaging in PMS.
· Average age initiation to sex is 17.5 years old.
Unprotected Sex
· More females did not use any contraceptive method during her first sexual encounter.
Marriage and Live-in
· More and more Filipino youth have chosen to postpone marriage. 73% of males and 57% females as (20 to 24 yrs. Old) remained single.
· Nearly four percent of females aged 15 to 19 and around 8 percent aged 20 to 24 were in live-in arrangements.
Pregnancy during Adolescence
Young pregnancies account for 30% of all births, 6% of spontaneous Abortions, 3 out of 4
maternal deaths.
Abortion
Four out of 10 abortion complication cases were from the youth.
Non-Sexual Behavior
· Almost half (47%) of young people smoked; 70% drank alcohol; A rising trend of drug use was seen in 11% of boys and girls, and it is rampant in high school and college.
· Risk-taking behavior are interlinked – those who smoked, drink and use drugs are more likely to have sex. On the other hand, having sex is most strongly linked to drug use, than with smoking and drinking, and later, to thoughts of suicidal and violence.
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