In the mid-1970s, the United States was told that it had an"epidemic" of teenage pregnancy.1 Ever since then, despite ageneral downward trend in the pregnancy rate among sexuallyexperienced girls and women from 15 to 19 years old,2 too-earlychildbearing has attracted a great deal of interest, not justfrom the medical community but from every segment of society.
Although facts are often lost in clouds of angry rhetoric, theyare essential if we are to understand this puzzling problem,which so far has defied solution. The facts are that in 1992,12.7 percent of all live births . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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