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Risking the future : adolescent sexuality, pregnancy, and childbearing / Sandra L. Hofferth and Cheryl D. Hayes, editors ; Panel on Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- National Research Council Staff, Corporate Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenage mothers--United States.
- Teenage mothers.
- Teenage pregnancy--United States.
- Teenage pregnancy.
- Teenage pregnancy--United States--Prevention.
- Youth--Sexual behavior--United States.
- Youth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (364 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, District of Columbia : National Academy Press, 1987.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-309-37256-9
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