A01=Charles L. Betsy
A01=Kristen A. Moore
A01=Margaret C. Simms
Abortion
Abortion Rate
Adolescent Pregnancy
adolescent reproductive outcomes
Attitudes
Author_Charles L. Betsy
Author_Kristen A. Moore
Author_Margaret C. Simms
Black Teens
Category=JHB
Contraception
contraceptive access research
Early Childbearing
Early Pregnancy
Educational Aspirations
educational attainment effects
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Family Planning Services
Fertility
Fertility Data
High Parity Births
Information
Job Corps
Job Training
Large Families
Marriage and Family
Monitor Dating Activities
Motivating Factor
Occupational Plans
Out-of Wedlock Birth Rate
Out-of Wedlock Childbearing
Project Redirection
racial differences in fertility
reproductive health disparities
School Age Parents
Sex Education
Sex Education Curricula
Sex Education Programs
SIE
socioeconomic impacts of teen birth
Story Stem
teen pregnancy prevention strategies
Teenage Childbearing
Teenage Fertility
Teenage Mothers
White Teens
Young Black Women
Product details
- ISBN 9780887387739
- Weight: 249g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 1986
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 1986. Forty five percent of black women have at least one child by the time they are turn twenty compared to 19 percent of white women. Eight-six percent of the births to black teens occurred to unmarried mothers compared to 30 percent among whites. Research shows that teenage childbearing has negative medical, social, and economic consequences and that women who first gave birth as teenagers are more likely to raise their families in poverty. In Choice and Circumstance the authors explore tree factors underlying the racial differences in the incidence of early childbearing; information about sex, pregnancy and contraception; need for family planning and abortion services; and motivation for postponing parenthood, including aspirations for schooling, employment plans and desire for children within marriage. They consider which teens postpone sex and pregnancy and why, and whether the kinds of motivation necessary to prevent early pregnancy vary by race in the United Sates, perhaps explaining the race differences in early childbearing.
Margaret C. Simms, Kristen A. Moore, Charles L. Betsy
