Contraceptive Patterns And Premarital Pregnancy Among Women Aged 15-19 in 1976

Contraceptive Patterns And Premarital Pregnancy Among Women Aged 15-19 in 1976

About 780,000 teenagers experience a premarital pregnancy each year. If they weren't using contraception, an additional 680,000 would become pregnant--a total of 1,460,000. However, if all who did not want a baby were practicing contraception consistently, we could reduce the number of pregnanc...

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Veröffentlicht in:Family planning perspectives 1978-05, Vol.10 (3), p.135-142
Hauptverfasser: Zelnik, Melvin, Kantner, John F.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Abortion, Induced
Adolescent
Adult
Birth control
Coitus
Contraception
Contraception Behavior
Contraceptive/Contraceptives/ Contraception
Family planning
Female
Humans
Percentage distributions
Pregnancy
Pregnancy outcome
Pregnancy, Premarital
Pregnancy/Pregnancies/Pregnant
Premarital
Sexual Behavior
Single status
United States
Unwanted pregnancy
White people
Woman/Women (see also Female)
Young
Youth
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Zusammenfassung:About 780,000 teenagers experience a premarital pregnancy each year. If they weren't using contraception, an additional 680,000 would become pregnant--a total of 1,460,000. However, if all who did not want a baby were practicing contraception consistently, we could reduce the number of pregnancies by at least 313,000. Only 467,000 would become pregnant, and half of these pregnancies would be wanted.
ISSN:0014-7354
DOI:10.2307/2134299