Adolescent Pregnancy and Sexual Abuse

Elders, M. Joycelyn; Albert, A E

doi:10.1001/jama.280.7.648

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“…The differences between the pregnancy and non-pregnancy groups in terms of current age, sexual risk behavior and sexual trauma are consistent with previous research among North American girls [13-15,33-37]. Suicidality and early maturity as factors associated with teenage pregnancy (both showing a trend towards significance) also confirm earlier research among adolescent females [22-25].…”

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Sexual risk behavior and pregnancy in detained adolescent females: a study in Dutch detention centers

Hamerlynck

Cohen‐Kettenis

Vermeiren

et al. 2007

Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health

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BackgroundThe purpose of this study was to investigate the lifetime prevalence of teenage pregnancy in the histories of detained adolescent females and to examine the relationship between teenage pregnancy on the one hand and mental health and sexuality related characteristics on the other.MethodsOf 256 admitted detained adolescent females aged 12–18 years, a representative sample (N = 212, 83%) was examined in the first month of detention. Instruments included a semi-structured interview, standardized questionnaires and file information on pregnancy, sexuality related characteristics (sexual risk behavior, multiple sex partners, sexual trauma, lack of assertiveness in sexual issues and early maturity) and mental health characteristics (conduct disorder, alcohol and drug use disorder and suicidality).ResultsApproximately 20% of the participants reported having been pregnant (before detention), although none had actually given birth. Sexuality related characteristics were more prevalent in the pregnancy group, while this was not so for the mental health characteristics. Age at assessment, early maturity, sexual risk behavior, and suicidality turned out to be the best predictors for pregnancy.ConclusionThe lifetime prevalence of pregnancy in detained adolescent females is high and is associated with both sexuality related risk factors and mental health related risk factors. Therefore, prevention and intervention programs targeting sexual risk behavior and mental health are warranted during detention.

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confidence: 89%

Sexual risk behavior and pregnancy in detained adolescent females: a study in Dutch detention centers

Hamerlynck

Cohen‐Kettenis

Vermeiren

et al. 2007

Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health

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“…23 The same social situation that predisposed the early adolescent to the risk of becoming pregnant may continue after the birth of the child if no intervention is provided. 24 For example, Overpeck et al 25 reported that the earliest teen mothers, those #14 years old, had more than a 6-fold increased risk for infant homicide compared with adults. 25 That study suggested that the negative social influences that may have predisposed a young girl to have a child as an early adolescent may continue after the birth of the child.…”

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The Risk for Infant Mortality among Adolescent Childbearing Groups

Phipps

Sowers

DeMonner

2002

Journal of Women's Health

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“…And, indeed, this is the fundamental difficulty in estimating the effect of foster care placement on children: Maltreated children—whether or not they go into foster care—suffer from a host of poor outcomes (for an overview, see Gilbert et al, 2009b). Maltreated children are more likely to smoke during adolescence and early adulthood (e.g., Anda et al, 1999), attempt suicide (e.g., Dube et al, 2001), engage in crime and delinquency (e.g., Currie & Tekin, 2012; Widom, 1989), exhibit symptoms consistent with psychopathology (e.g., Molnar et al, 2001), and have higher rates of unintended (e.g., Dietz et al, 1999) and teen (e.g., Elders & Albert, 1998) pregnancy, as well as more unstable relationships (e.g., Cherlin et al, 2004). And this is to say nothing of their high mortality rates (e.g., Putnam-Hornstein et al, Forthcoming ).…”

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Somebody's Children or Nobody's Children? How the Sociological Perspective Could Enliven Research on Foster Care

Wildeman

Waldfogel

2014

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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Social scientists have long been concerned about how the fortunes of parents affect their children, with acute interest in the most marginalized children. Yet little sociological research considers children in foster care. In this review, we take a three-pronged approach to show why this inattention is problematic. First, we provide overviews of the history of the foster care system and how children end up in foster care, as well as an estimate of how many children ever enter foster care. Second, we review research on the factors that shape the risk of foster care placement and foster care caseloads and how foster care affects children. We close by discussing how a sociological perspective and methodological orientation—ranging from ethnographic observation to longitudinal mixed methods research, demographic methods, and experimental studies—can foster new knowledge around the foster care system and the families it affects.

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Adolescent Pregnancy and Sexual Abuse

Cited by 29 publications

References 23 publications

Sexual risk behavior and pregnancy in detained adolescent females: a study in Dutch detention centers

Sexual risk behavior and pregnancy in detained adolescent females: a study in Dutch detention centers

The Risk for Infant Mortality among Adolescent Childbearing Groups

Somebody's Children or Nobody's Children? How the Sociological Perspective Could Enliven Research on Foster Care

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