Unwanted Pregnancies Amongst Teenagers
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Biosocial Science
- Vol. 15 (2) , 139-143
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932000014425
Abstract
Summary This article discusses the conflicting positions on the effectiveness of sex education and availability of birth control facilities in lowering the rate of teenage pregnancies. It provides evidence of a drop in the rate of teenage births only one-third of which can be accounted for by the rise in abortions. It concludes that teenagers must have been using birth control more effectively than in the early 1970s.Keywords
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- Estimating the number of illegal abortionsJournal of Biosocial Science, 1977