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Adolescent sexual behavior and childbearing
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- Creator
- Laurie Schwab Zabin, Sarah C. Hayward
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Newbury Park : Sage Publications, [1993]
- ©1993
- Physical Details
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- x, 133 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0803942583, 9780803942585, 0803942591, 9780803942592
- OCLC
- ocm26718961
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-128) and index.
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Adolescent Pregnancy in the United States. The Emergence of the Adolescent Pregnancy Issue. Adolescent Fertility Behaviors. The Social Environment. Comparison With Other Industrialized Nations -- 3. Age of Sexual Onset. Physical Maturation and Sexual Onset. Cultural Norms. The Role of Self-Concept -- 4. Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Contraceptive Use. The Nature of Adolescent Sexual Activity. The Nature Adolescent Perceptions of Their Partners and Sexual Selves. Barriers to Contraceptive Use. Attitudes and Behavior -- 5. Childbearing: Its Consequences and Management. Consequences of Early Parenthood. Why Do Adolescents Bear Children? The Pregnant Adolescent and Her Child -- 6. Interventions. Categories of Intervention. Program Evaluation. An Intervention That Worked: The Baltimore Project. Points of Intervention. Approaches to Service Provision -- 7. Conclusion
Subjects
- Teenage pregnancy -- United States.
- Teenagers -- Sexual behavior -- United States.
- Birth control -- United States.
- Contraception -- United States.
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- Pregnancy -- United States.
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- Adolescent.
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- Sexual Behavior -- United States.
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- Adolescent -- United States.
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