Risking the Future Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing, Volume II Working Papers only (1987) / Chapter Skim
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4. Teenage Pregnancy and Its Resolution
4. Teenage Pregnancy and Its Resolution
Pages 78-92
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As discussed in earlier chapters, in order to become a teen mother, a young woman must first become sexually active, next, not use contraception or fail in its use in some way (including experiencing method failure) , and, finally, once pregnant, decide to bear and raise the child her Elf.
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Pregnancy retest per 1000 women IS to 19 rose 9 per- cent between 1974 and 1984; however, because the proportion who were sexually active also rose over the per iod, the pregnancy rates per 1000 sexually active women IS to 19 actually fell 8.7 percent between 1974 and 1984. What does this mean for individual women?
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. me resolutions to a premarital pregnancy considered here are abortion versus having a live birth, marriage versus non-marriage, and adoption versus keeping the child .
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~ showed, pregnancy rates among those sexually active actually showed a decline between 1974 and 1984. Two valuable lessons f ram these data and f ram a recent study of five western European nations fJones et al., 1986)
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In 1982 14 percent of all teen women 15 to 19 had ever experienced a premarital pregnancy, compared with 16 percent in 1979. Of those premaritally sexually active, 30 percent experienced a premarital pregnancy.
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Of course, premaritally conceived but marital births, which constitute about 11 percent of teen pregnancies, are excluded here. Bowe~rer, since the proportion who marry to resolve a premarital pregnancy also declined, the proportion who wanted a pregnancy probably also declined for all premar itally pregnant teen women.
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White teenagers were 1.3 times and black teenagers 2.5 times more likely to have an induced abortion In 1978 than in 1972. Although in the early 1970s black teenagers had a lower likelihood of using abortion to resolve pregnancy, according to these abortion ratios, after 1974 the abortion ratios are similar or slightly higher for blacks than whites.
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Another study using data from a small study of health providers in Ventura County California found white Catholics to be less likely to have a live birth, once pregnant than either white non~atholics or Hispanic Catholics (Eisen et al., 1983)
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Two studies have examined factors associated with Abetter a prep maritally pregnant teenager who subsequently had a birth married prior
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Factors Associated with Bearing an Out-of-Wedlock mild The resolution many people are interested in is that of bearing a child out-of~edlock compared with all other options. me previous analyses bare explored the decisions in temporal sequence: that is, they have looked at, first, the decision to abort or carry a premarital pregnancy to term, and, second, the decision to marry or not marry before birth among those who carry to term.
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study of pregnant teens in Ventura Coun~cy, California found no significant difference in decision satisfaction 6 months after pregnancy resolution by type of decision made, age or ethnic group. Nearly all -- 80 percent -- acpressed satisfaction in their decision.
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show abortion ratios (abortions divided by births plus abortions) to lS to 17 year aids that are twice those of U.S.
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Although there is little -- 'idence that having had one prior abortion increases a woman's ris;. of miscarriage, premature ~ Ether bear ing a low birth weight baDy, there is some evidence that having had multiple abortions may increase this risk, although.
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Although in 1971 ache percentage of teen women who bed a premarital second pregnancy was higher 2 years after the outcome of the first premarital pregnancy for those who had an abortion than for those who had a birth, by 1979 the f igures were reversed. In 1979 teen women who had Terminated their premarital first pregnancy by abortion were less likely to have a second pregnancy within two years than those who had carried the first pregnancy to term (Koenig and 2elnik, 19821.
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Abortion data are presently esti~ted from three sources: a national survey of providers by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, counts of characteristics of abortion patients obtained by the Centers for Disease Control and counts of abort ions obtained in 12-13 reporting states by the National Center for Bealth Statistics. National estates of abortions in survey data can be obta ined f rom the Nat ionize ~ Audrey of Young Women ~ 1911, 1976} and the National Survey of You rag Women; and Young Men (1979}, the National Survey of doily Growth, Cycle II: ~ 1982)
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