Recently, reviews have been conducted on teenage
pregnancies in developing countries [14] but no focus
has been made specifically in Bangladesh context. More
importantly, information related to risk factors affecting
teenage pregnancy is absent in developing country context,
including Bangladesh, although most of the marriages
occurs before 18 years of legal age at marriage in
this country [15]. Under these circumstances, in the current
study, an attempt has been made to identify the
factors affecting teenage marital pregnancy in Bangladesh
context. We considered women aged 15-29 years
because they are the most fertility contributing women
in Bangladesh, whereas women aged >29 yeas have
much lower fertility rates [15]. We considered marital
pregnancy because three is no official record of pregnancy
of unmarried women in Bangladesh. In addition,
women may neither become mother prior to marriage
nor reveal such highly sensitive information in Bangladesh
context, even if women become mother prior to
marriage.