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Risking the Future

Risking the Future

Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing, Volume II Working Papers only

  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309077873
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309372565
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 1987
  • Month: January
  • Pages: 365
  • Language: English

More than 1 million teenage girls in the United States become pregnant each year; nearly half give birth. Why do these young people, who are hardly more than children themselves, become parents? The working papers for the report Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing provide additional insight into the trends in and consequences of teenage sexual behavior.

  • Front Matter
  • Table of Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing: An Emerging Research Focus
  • 1. Factors Affecting Initiation of Sexual Intercourse
  • 2. Adolescent Sexual Behavior as It Relates to Other Transition Behaviors in Youth
  • 3. Contraceptive Decision-Making among Adolescents
  • 4. Teenage Pregnancy and Its Resolution
  • 5. The Health and Medical Consequences of Adolescent Sexuality and Pregnancy: A Review of the Literature
  • 6. Social and Economic Consequences of Teenage Childbearing
  • 7. Teenage Fatherhood
  • 8. The Children of Teen Childbearers
  • 9. The Effects of Programs and Policies on Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing
  • 10. Estimates of Public Costs for Teenage Childbearing: A Review of Recent Studies and Estimates of 1985 Public Costs
  • References

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