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Article: SEXUAL ACTIVITY AMONG ZAMBIAN FEMALE TEENAGERS: THE ROLE OF INTERPERSONAL SKILLS.
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- Adolescence
- Article date:
- June 22, 1999
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One of the characteristics of African fertility is that the transition to motherhood occurs at an early age. African adolescents are more likely to become mothers than are Asian or Latin American adolescents. Most African countries have fertility rates higher than 10% per year for the 15- to 19-year-old female population. In Nigeria, for example, nearly two thirds of all females 20 years old and below have given birth at least once (United Nations, 1989).
In Zambia, social control over sexual relationships varies across ethnic groups. Among the Bemba, a large ethnic group, boys and girls are often separated at the age of eight or nine. Early sexual socialization ...