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Published on: July 10, 2017
Vulnerable adolescent girls: opposite-sex relationships
S J Pawlby1, A Mills, D Quinton
1Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, U.K.
Abstract:
This interview-based study compares the opposite-sex relationships of 50 girls, aged 15-16, identified as being at risk for difficulties in early adult partnerships, with 50 girls of the same age from an inner-city school. The high-risk girls had begun solo-dating earlier than the school girls, were more likely to have had a sexual relationship, to have had more sexual partners, to have been pregnant, and to have had a child. A third of the girls in both groups were solo-dating at the time of the interview. In contrast to the school girls, the high-risk girls attached a prominence and permanence to their current dating relationships, which already bore the hallmarks of later unsupportive partnerships.
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