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Article: Contraceptive use patterns within females' first sexual relationships: the role of relationships, partners, and methods.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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The prevalence of teenage pregnancy and childbearing is high in the United States, especially in comparison with other industrialized countries (Abma, Martinez, Mosher, & Dawson, 2004; Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2004; Martin, Hamilton, & Sutton, 2005; Singh, Darroch, & Frost, 2001; UNICEF, 2001). Public concern and prevention efforts over unintended pregnancies have focused primarily on teens because the vast majority of teen pregnancies and births are unintended (Abma et al., 2004; Henshaw, 1998), few births to teenage mothers occur within marriage (Franzetta, Ikramullah, Manlove, Moore, & Cottingham, 2006), and teenage mothers and their children have poorer economic, ...