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Unwanted Pregnancies Amongst Teenagers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Colin Francome
Colin Francome
Affiliation:
Faculty of Social Science, Middlesex Polytechnic, The Burroughs, London
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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.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , April 1983 , pp. 139 - 143
Copyright
Copyright © 1983, Cambridge University Press

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