The pandemic crisis brought about by COVID 19 is never gender neutral. The women more than men receive the hardest blow. For instance, the interruption of reproductive health services may increase unwanted pregnancies especially affected are adolescent girls (POPCOM,2020). In the recent report on UN women by Azcona, et al. 2020) the pandemic will push 96 million people worldwide into extreme poverty by 2021, of which 47 million are women and girls. Moreover, when schooling is interrupted and girls more than boys may not be able to return to school will bring about a widening socioeconomic gap but also education gender gap. It is in this light, that the study on teenage youth who got pregnant or bore a child during the pandemic is a national issue that should be brought to the attention to the policy makers.

In this study, social, economic and emotional characteristics of sample of teenage pregnant and teenage mothers would be narrated from their own stories in order to offer solutions in terms of programs and policy reforms on their most pressing needs and to empower them especially during pandemic. In a  study  by  Nelson and  Rodriguez, 2016, it was found  that the  socio-economic  characteristics of the  youth who got  pregnant  and who  experienced  disaster in the form of typhoons are those   who  are  living in an  extended households  but unrelated  families, are in a  consensual union with either their  spouses or partners, did not  go to  college  and  are  earning  a monthly income between Php 5,000 to  10,000. Thus, the young mothers are poor and were likely not to continue their education beyond high school. It would be interesting to find if these findings on teenagers who got pregnant during disastrous typhoon holds true to that of the of teenage youth   who find themselves pregnant and mothers in a pandemic crisis.