{"id":889331,"date":"2026-02-01T02:12:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/growing-concern-over-teenage-pregnancy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T02:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:12:25","slug":"growing-concern-over-teenage-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/growing-concern-over-teenage-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing concern over teenage pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<article data-history-node-id=\"348536\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Saturday 27 December 2025 &#8211; 11:00am<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  width=\"940\" height=\"529\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enca.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/banner_image\/public\/2023-07\/000_Par7626660.jpg.webp?itok=nDCwTBTo\" alt=\"Teenage Pregnancy\" title=\"Teenage Pregnancy\"><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; <span>There are increasing concerns over the rising number of teenage mothers in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Christmas Day, 130 teenage mothers gave birth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Department of Health has described the situation as a serious social and public health problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news-top-stories\/growing-concern-over-teenage-pregnancy\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 27 December 2025 &#8211; 11:00am JOHANNESBURG &#8211; There are increasing concerns over the rising number of teenage mothers in the country. On Christmas Day, 130 teenage mothers gave birth.\u00a0 The Department of Health has described the situation as a serious social and public health problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":889332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33258,29232],"tags":[17697,6441],"class_list":{"0":"post-889331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-growing","10":"tag-growing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}