02882nam a22004332u 4500 5388518 BD-DhUL 20161117104218.0 he u||024|||| 080220s1980 xxu ||| b ||| | eng d ED192202 ERIC ericd eng ericd MvI BD-DhUL mfm Hale, Christiane B. Adolescent Pregnancy [microform] : The Unmet Need for Psychological Research / Christiane B. Hale and Margaret P. Freese. [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1982. 27 p. ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (26th, Washington, DC, March 26-29, 1980). ericd Adolescents contribute nearly 20% of all births in the United States; half of these are unplanned or unwanted. Negative health and socioeconomic consequences are associated with adolescent childbearing, and teenagers account for nearly one-third of all reported therapeutic abortions. Failure to use other than traditional research methods to study antecedents and consequences of teenage pregnancy has resulted in inadequate information for public policy or program development. Age and race comparisons have been made in studies of adolescent sexual behavior; research data point to an increasing number of sexually active adolescents, most of whom do not use contraception regularly or effectively. Studies of social epidemiology of adolescent pregnancies lack quality data from males or couples; reliable data on teenage abortions are also scarce. Productive research by psychologists could be conducted in the areas of developmental issues, antecedents and consequences of adolescent childbearing, and evaluations of programs offering sex education, contraception, abortion, or parenting skills. There is a need for collaborative research efforts by social demographers, epidemiologists, psychologists, and others who could help find viable intervention strategies to reduce unwanted teenage pregnancies. (Author/NRB) Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive. Abortions. ericd Adolescents. ericd Birth. ericd Contraception. ericd Intervention. ericd Parenthood Education. ericd Pregnancy. ericd Prevention. ericd Research Needs. ericd Sex Education. ericd Sexuality. ericd Social Planning. ericd State of the Art Reviews. ericd Information Analyses. ericd Speeches/Meeting Papers. ericd Freese, Margaret P., author. ddc BK ANL mc 2253 ED192202 77000000199760 124883 124883 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC 235121 DUL DUL GEN 2016-11-17 purchased 356700 2016-11-17 2016-11-17 BK