- Understanding what works and what doesn't in reducing adolescent sexual risk-taking. [Review]
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- Early sexual initiation and subsequent sex-related risks among urban minority youth: the reach for health study. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Minority adolescents who initiate sexual activity early engage in behaviors that place them at high risk for negative health outcomes. It is important to involve parents and schools in prevention efforts that address sexual initiation in early adolescence and that target youth who continue to place themselves and their partners at risk.
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- The effects of early childbearing on schooling over time. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Given the current importance of a college education, teenage childbearers today are at least as disadvantaged as those of past generations.
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- Socioeconomic disadvantage and adolescent women's sexual and reproductive behavior: the case of five developed countries. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Comparatively widespread disadvantage in the United States helps explain why U.S. teenagers have higher birthrates andpregnancy rates than those in other developed countries. Improving U.S. teenagers' sexual and reproductive behavior requires strategies to reduce the numbers of young people growing up in disadvantaged conditions and to help those who are disadvantaged overcome the obstacles they face.
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- Differences in teenage pregnancy rates among five developed countries: the roles of sexual activity and contraceptive use. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Data on contraceptive use are more important than data on sexual activity in explaining variation in levels of adolescent pregnancy and childbearing among the five developed countries; however, the higher level of multiple sexual partnership among American teenagers may help explain their higher STD rates.
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- The IUD and recovery of fertility. [Letter]Fam Plann Perspect. 2001 Sep-Oct; 33(5):234, 241.FP
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- The NIH condom report: the glass is 90% full. [Journal Article]
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- The influence of significant others on Australian teenagers' decisions about pregnancy resolution. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: While most young women report they were not directly influenced by a significant other in their decision to continue or terminate a pregnancy, pregnancy resolution decisions are affected by families and partners, often indirectly. These findings have important implications for the manner in which services are delivered to these young women.
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- Childbearing in cohabiting unions: racial and ethnic differences. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: In terms of fertility, cohabitation does not maintain the same place in the American family system for all racial and ethnic groups. These racial and ethnic differences in fertility-related behavior are not explained by socioeconomic differences. Based on levels of childbearing during cohabitation, relationship status at time of birth and intention status of children, it appears that cohabitation is a more acceptable arena for family building among Hispanic women than among whites or blacks.
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- Choice of and satisfaction with methods of medical and surgical abortion among U.S. clinic patients. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Factors affecting the choice of abortion method appear to be numerous and complex. Providers need to be sensitive to differences in women's values and life circumstances when counseling them about an abortion method. In particular, providers should incorporate into their counseling sessions what women need to know about the characteristics of abortion methods and help women to identify what is the best option for them.
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- Adverse childhood experiences and sexual risk behaviors in women: a retrospective cohort study. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Among individuals with a history of adverse childhood experiences, risky sexual behavior may represent their attempts to achieve intimate interpersonal connections. Having grown up in families unable to provide needed protection, such individuals may be unprepared to protect themselves and may underestimate the risks they take in their attempts to achieve intimacy. If so, coping with such problems represents a serious public health challenge.
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- Timing of alcohol and other drug use and sexual risk behaviors among unmarried adolescents and young adults. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: The relationships between alcohol and other drug use and two sexual behaviors--condom use and multiple partners-suggest distinct mechanisms of influence and the need for different prevention strategies.
- The effect of partners' characteristics on teenage pregnancy and its resolution. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: The characteristics of teenage women and their partners appear to play a role in nonmarital teenage pregnancy and its outcome. However, the estimated relationships between one partner's characteristics and the probability of a nonmarital pregnancy and its resolution are generally little affected by whether the other partner's characteristics are also taken into account.
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- Using photographs to strengthen family planning research. [Journal Article]
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