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The incidence and outcome of adolescent pregnancy in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2011

Joy G. Dryfoos
Joy G. Dryfoos
Affiliation:
The Alan Guttmacher Institute, 515 Madison Avenue, New York
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The publication in 1976 of a 64-page pamphlet with the unlikely title 11 Million Teenagers: What Can Be Done About the Epidemic of Adolescent Pregnancies in the U.S. (AGI, 1976) precipitated a dialogue quite new to the American public. For the first time, attention was centred on the fact that pregnancy among teenagers was almost as prevalent as the common cold and that those who were getting pregnant increasingly were younger, and more of them were white and middle class. The figure of one million pregnancies experienced by women aged 15–19 showed that one in ten female adolescents and one out of four sexually active teenagers are conceiving each year.

Type
II. Teenage pregnancy—incidence and outcome
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 10 , supplement S5: Fertility in Adolescence , 1978 , pp. 85 - 99
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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