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, but I have to admit, it pretty much normalizes teen pregnancy, continues the myth that it is "the girl's problem," and presents a year of Juno's life as just a blip - the result of one sexual act - and at the end everything pretty much goes...
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, Jamie Lynn's pregnancy, and even the teens making a pact to get pregnant, might actually help reduce the stigma around teen pregnancy, and wouldn't that be a good thing? The stigma around teen pregnancy facilitates people not talking about...
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Teen pregnancy rose 3% in 2006, to 41.9 per 1000 females aged 15 to 19 years, the first increase after 14 years of steady decline. When I tried to explain what the condition was all about to the patient and her family, she became angry at me,...
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In addition, the authors of this article found that 14% of the change in pregnancy risk among adolescents ages 15-19 was attributable to the decrease in the percentage of sexually active young women, while 86% was due to changes in contraceptive use.
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