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While teen pregnancy is down in the Asia Pacific region, a United Nations Population Fund report found that adolescent fertility is up the Philippines.
Citing data from 2013, the report says was that one in 10 Filipinas between the ages of 15 and 19 is already a mother or is pregnant with their first child. Teen pregnancy has been on the rise in the country since 2000.
The report also found that 15 percent of adolescent girls who had sex before the age of 15 reported that their first sexual encounter was forced.
It also noted how gender norms in the country push young men to seek sex in their teens.
"Expectations that men should be sexually experienced, or a perception that their status depends on their sexual conquests, contributes to risky sexual behavior, such as early onset of sexual behavior and an increased number of partners," it said.
According to UNFPA's Asia-Pacific regional director Yoriko Yasukawa... "We need to abandon once and for all the idea that leaving young people in ignorance is going to stop them from having sex or that talking about it is going to make them have sex," Yasukasawa said.
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