Like mother, like daughter: a general practice study of maternal influences on teenage pregnancy.

1 March 1997

journal article

Vol. 47 (416) , 175-6

Abstract

This study confirmed the hypothesis that pregnant teenagers in the 1990s are more likely to have a mother who had a teenage pregnancy than non-pregnant teenagers. It also found that the daughters of teenage mothers are more likely to continue their own pregnancies.

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Intergenerational patterns of teenage fertility
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