Risking the Future Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing, Volume II: Working Papers and Statistical Appendices (1987) / Chapter Skim
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4 Teenage Pregnancy And Its Resolution
4 Teenage Pregnancy And Its Resolution
Pages 78-92
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For example, an agency may be interested in developing a profile of young women at risk of teen childbearing to target them for intervention. As discussed in earlier chapters, in order to become a teen mother, a young woman must first become sexually active, next, not use contraception or fail in its use in some way (including experiencing method failure)
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suggest a slight increase in the probability of pregnancy during the first two years after first intercourse between 1976 and 1979, with 33 percent of white teenagers and 43 percent of black teenagers experiencing a first premarital pregnancy with
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The 47 percent which were live births are divided as follows: 13 percent were postmaritally conceived births, 11 percent were premaritally conceived but born postmaritally, and 23 percent were born out-of-wedlock (estimates from Table 3.1 and O'Connell and Rogers, 1984~. The resolutions to a premarital pregnancy considered here are abortion versus having a live birth, marriage versus non-marriage, and adoption versus keeping the child.
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high levels of sexual activity do not necessarily result in high pregnancy rates, given adequate use of contraception, and 2) low birth rates do not necessarily imply high abortion rates; they may simply imply low pregnancy rates.
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In 1982 14 percent of all teen women 15 to 19 had ever experienced a premarital pregnancy, compared with 16 percent in 1979. Of those premaritally sexually active, 30 percent experienced a premarital pregnancy.
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Of course, premaritally conceived but marital births, which constitute about 11 percent of teen pregnancies, are excluded here. However, since the proportion who marry to resolve a premarital pregnancy also declined, the proportion who wanted a pregnancy probably also declined for all premaritally pregnant teen women.
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White teenagers were 1.3 times and black teenagers 2.5 times more likely to have an induced abortion in 1978 than in 1972. Although in the early 1970s black teenagers had a lower likelihood of using abortion to resolve pregnancy, according to these abortion ratios, after 1974 the abortion ratios are similar or slightly higher for blacks than whites.
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Another study using data from a small study of health providers in Ventura County California found white Catholics to be less likely to have a live birth, once pregnant than either white non-Catholics or Hispanic Catholics (Eisen et al., 1983~. Emus the particular religious affiliation appears less important in the decision than the strength of religious conviction.
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The data show very little additional change between 1979 and 1982, although the data are not completely comparable, and the total number of pregnancies is underreported (Horn, 19853. If we look only at pregnancies that end in a live birth, we see that of the total first births to white and black teenagers, the proportion conceived outside of marriage has risen, and the proportion premaritally conceived but legitimated before birth rose then declined to about the same initial level {O'Connell and Rogers, 1985~.
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The results of studies viewing the decision this way do not differ from the results of studies using paired comparisons only, but this approach allows simultaneous comparison among all alternative resolutions. Young women who are black, who live in a metropolitan area, whose parents are of low educational levels, who are young at first conception, and who live in a large family are more likely to bear a child out-of-wedlock than to either abort or marry (Eisen et al., 1983; Leibowitz et al., 1980; Devaney and Hubley, 1981; Zelnik et al., 1980~.
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study of pregnant teens in Ventura County, California found no significant difference in decision satisfaction 6 months after pregnancy resolution by type of decision made, age or ethnic group. Nearly all -- 80 percent -- expressed satisfaction in their decision.
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show abortion ratios (abortions divided by births plus abortions) to IS to 17 year olds that are twice those of U.S.
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The Alan Guttmacher Institute teas moved toward reporting ratios adjusted to age at conception. The other organizations that report abortion statistics do not yet do so {the Centers for Disease Control and the National Center for Health Statistics)
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Few people consider maritally conceived pregnancies problematic, although, among young teenagers, they may be. Research suggests that a premaritally pregnant teen is more likely to give birth rather than obtain an abortion if she wanted the pregnancy, is of lower socioeconomic status, is unfavorably dis
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Abortion data are presently estimated from three sources: a national survey of providers by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, counts of characteristics of abortion patients obtained by the Centers for Disease Control and counts of abortions obtained in 12-13 reporting states by the National Center for Health Statistics. National estimates of abortions in survey data can be obtained from the National Survey of Young Women (1971, 1976)
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