BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Risk-taking behavior has been shown to be associated with adolescent pregnancy or childbearing. However, the specific risk-taking behavioral factors and the extent to which they are associated with adolescent childbearing is less clear. The purpose of this study was to determine the risk-taking behavioral factors associated with adolescent childbearing. METHODS In this ...

CONTEXT Understanding the causes of early childbearing is important for reducing the persistently high rates of early births in the United States. Perceptions of possible benefits may contribute to these rates, while high opportunity costs may dissuade women from early childbearing. METHODS Perceptions of costs and benefits of pregnancy, as well as later experiences of pregnancy, were assesse...

background: a lot of women die each because of unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortion. according to importance of unwanted pregnancies, the purpose of the current study is to determine prevalence of unwanted pregnancy and its related factors in interruption method users in gorgan health-care centers in 2010. methods: in this descriptive-analytical study, 339 eligible women that were under sup...

Contraceptive drop out is a public health problem that has negative effect on women's reproductive outcomes. A high proportion of contraceptive dropouts without woman's desire to become pregnant associated with unwanted pregnancies, births and unsafe abortions. This scoping review aims map the literature, identify knowledge gaps examine scientific evidence regarding experience in women childbea...

ical—i.e., that a pregnant teenager who is still growing may be competing for nutrients with the fetus, or that pregnancy within two years after menarche increases the risk of preterm delivery.4 Psychological factors may also be involved, since many adolescent pregnancies are unplanned, unwanted or discovered late;5 a pregnant teenager may lack the emotional maturity to take responsibility for ...

Almost 50 years after domestic US family planning programs began, their effects on childbearing remain controversial. Using the county-level roll-out of these programs from 1964 to 1973, this paper reevaluates their shorter and longer term effects on US fertility rates. I find that the introduction of family planning is associated with significant and persistent reductions in fertility driven b...

This paper uses 1979-85 data on women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the economic, sociological, and institutional antecedents of adolescent childbearing and high school completion and to analyze the effect of early childbearing on school completion. Fertility and school completion are modeled as dichotomous outcomes, and their determinants are estimated using a bivar...