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Title: Pregnancy Risk Lessened For Teenagers with High Educational Aspirations
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Witwer, M. |
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Pregnancy Risk Lessened For Teenagers with High Educational Aspirations Family Planning Perspectives 25,4 (July/August 1993): 189-190. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2135932 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Alan Guttmacher Institute Keyword(s): Abortion; Childbearing, Adolescent; Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Educational Aspirations/Expectations; Marriage; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Pregnancy, Adolescent; Self-Esteem Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This article focuses on how adolescents with high educational expectations are significantly less likely than others to become pregnant, and those who become pregnant are significantly more likely than teenagers with low educational aspirations to have an abortion or to marry before the baby's birth. According to an analysis of data on 1,142 teenagers, those who are more motivated and self-determined and those with positive attitudes toward school are also less likely to have a premarital pregnancy. Adolescent females with high self-esteem are no less likely than others to have a premarital pregnancy, but they are significantly less likely to have a premarital birth, because self-esteem is positively linked with the likelihood of abortion. The analysis of the effects of attitudes and family background characteristics on pregnancy and pregnancy resolution was based on data from non-Hispanic White females who participated in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). NLSY is a multistage, stratified probability sample of 12,686 persons aged 14-21 in 1979. Digest summary of study published by Plotnick in 1992 American Journal of Sociology. |
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Witwer, M. "Pregnancy Risk Lessened For Teenagers with High Educational Aspirations." Family Planning Perspectives 25,4 (July/August 1993): 189-190.
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