The increased number of crises in adolescent pregnancies may be related to the adolescents' incomplete education and emotional development, ambivalence, unsettled life situation, and lack of experience. Complications include premature birth, giving up the baby for adoption, malnutrition, decreased stimulation, and divided mothering. (Author/MV)

Compared with a control group which was permitted but not systematically encouraged to return to school, more program participants returned to day school following the pregnancy. (Author/DEP)

Perception of pregnancy risk, fertility knowledge, and probability-based teaching examples of risk were assessed in 104 primiparous urban adolescents 13-18 years of age in their second and third trimesters of pregnancy. Perception of risk was not associated with age, actual frequency of intercourse, or level of fertility knowledge. (Author/PN)

An alternative approach to the widespread dissemination of birth control information and devices among adolescents, involves group or individual counseling for those females who are most susceptible to unplanned pregnancies. An inferential strategy is presented for identifying, according to defined groups, unmarried adolescents who appear…

The literature on adolescent cognitive development and issues related to the prevention of teenage pregnancy are briefly discussed. The author outlines relevant questions which should be understood by professionals working in sex education and human services programs, and presents implications for research. (GDC)

Results of a survey of adolescent mothers, pregnant teenagers, and nonpregnant and nonparenting adolescents suggest that adolescent mothers and pregnant teenagers are less distressed by their situation than was once thought. Social supports and socioeconomic status predicted psychological well-being better than parenting status. (Author/BW)

Impoverished pregnant teenagers were distinguished from matched or random controls by an inability to cope; by identification of family, school, and peer relationships as self-devaluing experiences; by an attraction to deviant identity as a source of self-esteem; and by adoption of deviant behaviors. (Author/CP)