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Title: Factors in the Resolution of Adolescent Premarital Pregnancies
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Cooksey, Elizabeth C. |
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Factors in the Resolution of Adolescent Premarital Pregnancies Demography 27,2 (May 1990): 207-218. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/bl7j9202kw04rk32/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Abortion; Adolescent Fertility; Childbearing; Fertility; Pregnancy, Adolescent; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using data from the NLSY, this paper examines factors influencing the pregnancy resolution decision of premaritally pregnant teenagers. Three possible outcomes, bearing the child out-of-wedlock, legitimizing the child through marriage, or aborting, are analyzed. The effects of such factors as family structure, age at conception, race, parental education, mothers' employment, number of siblings, and religious affiliation on each pregnancy resolution decision are explored. Significant racial differences were found for the three outcomes studied and higher educational attainment levels were associated with pregnancy termination. |
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Cooksey, Elizabeth C. "Factors in the Resolution of Adolescent Premarital Pregnancies." Demography 27,2 (May 1990): 207-218.
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