Children having children
Save the Children is publishing its fifth annual State of the World’s Mothers report. By focusing on the tens of millions of girls who become mothers when they are themselves still children, this report helps to bring attention to the enormous, often life-and-death challenges faced by young mothers and their children. It suggests actions required to help girls who are at risk of early motherhood. It also recommends programmatic and policy solutions that have been successful both in helping girls to postpone marriage and childbirth and in providing health and education services for child mothers and their babies.