TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing, Volume II Working Papers only SN - 978-0-309-07787-3 DO - 10.17226/945 PY - 1987 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/945/risking-the-future-adolescent-sexuality-pregnancy-and-childbearing-volume-ii PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Behavioral and Social Sciences AB - More than 1 million teenage girls in the United States become pregnant each year; nearly half give birth. Why do these young people, who are hardly more than children themselves, become parents? The working papers for the report Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing provide additional insight into the trends in and consequences of teenage sexual behavior. ER -