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Adolescent Pregnancy: Continuing Challenges

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Behavioral Pediatrics

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Adolescent pregnancy is not a new phenomenon. Although it is the norm in most underdeveloped countries, adolescent pregnancy has been a source of increasing concern in this country in recent years because of both the high number of young adolescents who become pregnant each year and the severe medical and social consequences associated with childbearing at this age. Each year more than 1 million American teenagers become pregnant, and between one half and two thirds of these young women give birth.1 This represents 1 out of every 10 girls between the ages of 15 and 19 years in this country.

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  1. Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, Michigan State University, Kalamazoo, MI, 49001, USA

    Donald E. Greydanus

  2. Child Development Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232-3573, USA

    Mark L. Wolraich

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Stevens-Simon, C., McAnarney, E.R. (1992). Adolescent Pregnancy: Continuing Challenges. In: Greydanus, D.E., Wolraich, M.L. (eds) Behavioral Pediatrics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2774-8_24

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