Investigating the Views of Civil Society on Early Pregnancy through the Focus Group Method

This paper is the synthesis of a qualitative study regarding the factors generating a sad fact of Romanian life, namely Romania is one of the leaders in EU as concerning the teenage pregnancy indicator. This study also aims to investigate individual and social consequences of juvenile pregnancy, especially how solutions to this problem are seen.We organized five focus groups, three with teenagers and two with adults. The adolescents were divided into three categories: a mixed group, one of girls and one of boys, and the adults were grouped according to their professional experience as social workers and psychologists/teachers.We inquire through this approach adults’ and adolescents’ opinion on this topic, with interest in finding differences in perception between the two categories.