Motherhood
Well, this throws a monkey-wrench into a lot of the “We need more education!” “No! We need no education!” rhetoric about teen pregnancies.
Susan L. Davies, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham led a team that questioned 455 low-income, African-American adolescent girls in Birmingham between 1996 and 1999. They found that nearly one-quarter — 23.6 percent — expressed some desire to become pregnant in the near future. […]
The most striking data revealed that adolescent girls with at least some desire to be pregnant were 3.5 times more likely to have a boyfriend or partner at least five years older, were more than twice as likely to have had sex with a casual partner in the six months prior to the survey and also more than twice as likely to have used condoms inconsistently in the prior month.
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