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When children have children: the teen pregnancy predicament

D M Carter1, M E Felice, J Rosoff

  • 1Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.

American Journal of Preventive Medicine
|March 1, 1994
PubMed

Keywords:
Abortion, InducedAbortion, LegalAdolescent PregnancyAmericasBlacks--womenCultural BackgroundDemographic FactorsDeveloped CountriesEconomic FactorsEducationEthnic GroupsFamily PlanningFertilityFertility Control, PostconceptionNorth AmericaNorthern AmericaPopulationPopulation CharacteristicsPopulation DynamicsReproductive BehaviorSex EducationSocioeconomic FactorsUnited StatesWhites--women

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