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Adolescent Pregnancy

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Handbook of Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health

Part of the book series: Issues in Women’s Health ((WOHI))

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Over the past several decades, there has been considerable debate over youthful sexual onset, pregnancy, and childbearing. In the course of these debates, as in most issues of demographic significance, issues arise of ethics and morality, of health and medicine, of politics and economics, of family and the social order. Each area of concern has implications from the most personal dimension of individual choice, through the couple, the family and the neighborhood, to the larger dimension of the nation and—with its implications for populations at large—the world. Because of the complexity of the issues that are raised in these debates, it is not surprising that positions become extreme and stereotyped. These positions are often reflective, not of teenagers’ dilemmas nor of pregnancy itself; in the context of the community as a whole, adolescents become not a metaphor for social change but a target.

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    Laurie Schwab Zabin & Kathleen M. Cardona

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Zabin, L.S., Cardona, K.M. (2002). Adolescent Pregnancy. In: Wingood, G.M., DiClemente, R.J. (eds) Handbook of Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health. Issues in Women’s Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0689-8_13

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