Premarital Pregnancy in China: Cohort Trends and Educational Gradients

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-291
Author(s):  
Yue Qian ◽  
Yongai Jin
Keyword(s):  
Premarital Pregnancy

scholarly journals Exploring Adolescent Characteristics, Experiences and Socio-environmental Responses on Premarital Pregnancy in Central Java Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 12030
Author(s):  
Zahroh Shaluhiyah ◽  
Antono Suryoputro ◽  
Aulia Novelira ◽  
Ratih Indraswari
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Parental Supervision ◽  
Premarital Pregnancy ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Partner Influence ◽  
Permissive Attitude ◽  
Environmental Responses ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Main Factor

The aim of this study was to explore the phenomena of premarital pregnancy by exploring adolescent characteristics, experiences and socio- environmental responses. It employs descriptive study and phenomenology approach using in-depth interviews to explore adolescent’s premarital pregnancy experiences. A total of 49 adolescents aged 12-19 years with premarital pregnancy were willing to participate in this study and 10 respondents were interviewed in more deeply. The data were analyzed using thematic content analysis. The average age of the respondents were 17 years old and most of them had low educational level. Their knowledge on sexual and reproductive health was categorized as lack of knowledge. Nearly half of them were more permissive so that partner influence to have sex is main factor that is difficult to resist by the respondents. Parents and community responses were initially forced to resist their premarital pregnancy, but it gradually became normally accept. Premarital pregnancy was more influenced by peer’s permissive attitude, frequent access to pornography, and lack of parental supervision. There were four respondents who tried to seek abortion. It is recommended to provide comprehensive sexual and reproductive health education to adolescents in order to prevent premarital pregnancy.

Premarital Pregnancy and Native Opinion. A Note on Social Change

Africa ◽  
1933 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Schapera
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Premarital Pregnancy ◽  
Unmarried Mother ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
Putative Father ◽  
The Subject

In his recent writings on the subject of marriage and kinship, Malinowski has repeatedly emphasized what he terms the ‘principle legitimacy’. By this he means the rule, found in all human societies, that a woman has to be married before she is allowed legitimately to conceive. ‘Roughly speaking, an unmarried mother is under a ban, a fatherless child is a bastard. This is by no means only a European or Christian prejudice; it is the attitude found amongst most barbarous and savage peoples as well.’ Where prenuptial intercourse is regarded as illicit and immoral, marriage is obviously the essential prelude to the birth of legitimate children, i.e. children having full social status in the community. But even where prenuptial intercourse is tolerated, this tolerance does not extend to liberty of conception. The unmarried boys and girls may indulge freely in sex, but there must be no issue. An unmarried mother will be subjected to punishment and become the object of scorn, her child possibly killed or aborted, while often the putative father is also penalized unless he marries the girl. Almost universally, a child born out of wedlock has a different status from the legitimate offspring, usually very much to his disadvantage. Facts such as these show that the group of mother and child is considered incomplete in the eyes of the community, and that the sociological position of husband and father is everywhere felt to be indispensable.

Community Effects on the Resolution of Adolescent Premarital Pregnancy

2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 1025-1043 ◽  
Author(s):  
SCOTT J. SOUTH ◽  
ERIC P. BAUMER
Keyword(s):  
Community Effects ◽  
Premarital Pregnancy

Premarital pregnancy in the United States

1960 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Monahan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Premarital Pregnancy
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