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Teenage Pregnancy
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Teenage Pregnancy
Pregnancy by a female, age 13 to 19, which is understood to occur in a girl who hasn’t completed her core education—secondary school—has few or no marketable skills, is financially dependent upon her parents and/or continues to live at home and is mentally immature

teenage pregnancy
Adolescent pregnancy, teen pregnancy Social medicine Pregnancy by a ♀, age 13 to 19; TP is usually understood to occur in a ♀ who has not completed her core education–secondary school, has few or no marketable skills, is financially dependent upon her parents and/or continues to live at home and is often mentally immature. See Adolescence.

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42) Neighborhood and peer contexts in which early childbearing is prevalent may create a normative climate for more than one pregnancy in adolescence.
To alter adolescents' perception of the effort involved in caring for a baby and successfully increase their intent to avoid pregnancy in adolescence, students at a Los Angeles County high school participated in an intervention using a life-size infant simulation doll known as "BabyThink It Over" (BTIO).
13) SEXUAL ABUSE, RAPE, AND PREGNANCY Although the scientific data is sparse, those experienced in working with sexual abuse and rape and those experienced in working with pregnant teens are well aware of the connection between sexual abuse in childhood and pregnancy in adolescence.
 
 
 
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