The silent truth of teenage pregnancies: Birth to Twenty cohort's next generation
SOURCE: South African Medical Journal
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2006
TITLE AUTHOR(S): L.M.Richter, S.A.Norris, C.Ginsburg
KEYWORDS: BIRTH TO TEN NOW BIRTH TO TWENTY (BT20), TEENAGE PREGNANCY
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 3817
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/6803
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/6803
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2006
TITLE AUTHOR(S): L.M.Richter, S.A.Norris, C.Ginsburg
KEYWORDS: BIRTH TO TEN NOW BIRTH TO TWENTY (BT20), TEENAGE PREGNANCY
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 3817
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/6803
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/6803
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Abstract
By the 1970s teenage pregnancies were recognised as a problem worldwide. Initially the major concern focused on the potential biological risks of obstetric complications in adolescents. Subsequent studies indicated that teen pregnancies do not present any problems unanticipated among primipara generally. Studies on the possible social and psychological problems associated with adolescent childbearing confirmed that lack of social support was a risk factor for the adjustment and development of both young mothers and their children.2 Recent concerns about teen pregnancies have centred on the disruption that childbearing causes to the educational and occupational trajectories of young women, consequently maintaining and exacerbating poverty.-
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