Adolescent Pregnancy — Another Look

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Abstract
In the mid-1970s, the United States was told that it had an “epidemic” of teenage pregnancy.1 Ever since then, despite a general downward trend in the pregnancy rate among sexually experienced girls and women from 15 to 19 years old,2 too-early childbearing has attracted a great deal of interest, not just from the medical community but from every segment of society.Although facts are often lost in clouds of angry rhetoric, they are essential if we are to understand this puzzling problem, which so far has defied solution. The facts are that in 1992, 12.7 percent of all live births . . .