Teenage Pregnancy in the United States

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 262 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Trussell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
The United States

Condom Promotion: The Need for a Social Marketing Program in America's Inner Cities

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Dejong
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Social Marketing ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
Third World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Minority Populations ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Inner Cities ◽  
Product Pricing

Current marketing efforts by commercial condom manufacturers are directed at White consumers and therefore neglect inner city Blacks and Latinos as potential users of condoms. This paper reviews “social marketing programs” developed in Third World countries to promote condoms as a contraceptive, often with the financial assistance of the United States or other governments. This technology — which includes product, pricing, distribution, and promotional considerations — should be applied in the United States, especially to reach poor minority populations that are currently at greater risk for teenage pregnancy, AIDS, and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Teenage and Single Pregnancy in the United States

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rickie Solinger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
Reproductive Politics ◽  
Race And Class

How have attitudes about single and teenage pregnancy changed since World War II? Once again, as with so much of reproductive politics, the question immediately and urgently touches upon race and class. Between about 1945 and 1970, with many institutions still widely enforcing...

TEENAGE PREGNANCY IN THE UNITED STATES AS SEEN FROM BRITAIN

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 84 (5) ◽  
pp. A38-A38
Author(s):  
Student
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Premarital Sexual ◽  
Access To Contraception ◽  
The U.S

Lack of access to contraception is especially severe among teenagers [in the U.S.]; although the pattern of premarital sexual intercourse is broadly similar in Britain and the U.S.A., teenage pregnancies are almost five times as common in the U.S.A. Eighty percent of the annual 1.1 million pregnancies among American teenagers are unwanted and 450,000 end in legal abortions (60 abortions for every 1000 women aged 18-19).

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