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Title: Resolution of Premarital Pregnancies: What is the Role of Public Policy?
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Serrato, Carl A. |
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Resolution of Premarital Pregnancies: What is the Role of Public Policy? Presented: Baltimore, MD, Population Association of America Meetings, 1989 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Abortion; Adolescent Fertility; Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Birth Rate; Childbearing, Adolescent; Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Family Planning; Fertility; Poverty; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Sex Education; State Welfare; Teenagers; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Since the 1960s the teenage birth rate has declined by almost half, yet teenage childbearing is still considered a major national concern. Underlying the overall decline in teenage fertility are a rising birth rate among single teenagers and an increase in the rates of teenage pregnancy and abortion. While many public programs (e.g., family planning services, sex education, parental consent laws) have been initiated with the purpose of reversing these trends, in some quarters it is the common wisdom that these programs, along with others (e.g., public assistance programs), are an important cause of teenage pregnancy and childbearing. Using the NLSY, the author examines the influence public policies may have on young women's decisions concerning how to resolve a premarital pregnancy: birth and marriage, birth and remaining single, or abortion. |
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Serrato, Carl A. "Resolution of Premarital Pregnancies: What is the Role of Public Policy?" Presented: Baltimore, MD, Population Association of America Meetings, 1989. |