This article seeks to juxtapose the current services and programmes that
deal with the prevention of teenage pregnancies and the teenage motherhood notion
in South Africa and Slovenia. The paper looks at the situation in both countries and
tries to detect the main problems in the two cases and therefore proposes changes on
the basis of what is known about the two countries. In other words, we describe the
situation, identify problems and suggest solutions. Teenage pregnancy and teenage
motherhood are always viewed as inseparable and as a discourse that exists due to
a variety of social and sociological variables. The notion of teenage pregnancy and
teenage motherhood is assessed against related theories and scholastic (secondary)
evidence. Finally, it is argued that intervention services and programmes that are
linked with the life perspective of teenagers and teenage mothers yield positive results.