Contraception in adolescence

The adolescence is a life period characterized by deep changes, as somatics like emotionals. In the actual occidental society, the adolescence presents a larger duration, especially for the favourest social strata, contributing to it not only more precocious appearance of menarche (mean age 12,6 years) but also different socio-cultural aspects. The beginning of coital sexual relations has experimented an advance too (mean age 15-17 years). In this work we wish offer to primary attention paediatrician, a revision of different contraceptive methods available in our country at the moment and a review of the more important legal aspects related with sexuality and contracepcion in this age group, with the purpose of favour daily job in our surgeries.