In Venezuela, unfortunately, the reality is different because many women become pregnant very early. Since 2015 teenage pregnancy has increased by 65%. Today, they represent 20% of all pregnancies in the country. Many begin their pregnancies with a significant nutritional deficit, directly affecting their children because they are born with a weight deficit. In the first years of their development, they do not have an environment conducive to their growth.

An unintended cause of why Venezuela ranks first in teenage pregnancies in South America is that since 2015, the country's socioeconomic crisis has forced parents to seek better opportunities abroad, leaving their children behind with no stable family structure, no life project, and above all, no love. The love they lack from their parents is sought in that of a child.

In addition, there are widespread shortages of basic contraception. Condoms, birth control pills, and intrauterine devices have not been available at public hospitals since 2015. Venezuelan health centers' lack of free contraceptive supplies affects most impoverished populations. While private pharmacies can provide contraceptives – with a box of three condoms costing the same as a week’s minimum salary – the state has not been buying these supplies to any great extent for the past six years, and, as a result, the bulk of the population living in extreme poverty are on their own.

Venezuelan society, profoundly conservative and catholic, does not teach sex education in schools, much less inside the homes. And when the subject is touched upon, it is done from a place of fear and sin and not as something to be experienced with pleasure and care. Yetzimar Sanz, 16 years old, got pregnant by her first boyfriend, Adrián, 17 years old. Her daughter Adrianyelis is the fruit of her first sexual relationship.

The cultural narrative about pregnant teenagers in Venezuela has been written with teenage fathers out of the equation. Fathers do not take responsibility for the upbringing of their children, and it is a normalized pattern of behavior that gives them the right to impregnate women and leave them. In the village of Choroní, men say they become fathers as soon as they get hair on their faces.

Despite the fact that 70% of our country's population is at their optimal age of productivity, the lack of empowerment in the life course of young Venezuelans towards professionalization and lack of training translates into greater poverty.