High Risk Behavior among Adolescent Mothers: The Problem in Context.

摘要: Poverty, illiteracy and school dropout are among the factors that leave adolescents at risk of engaging in unprotected sex substance use. Adolescent women especially for sexual exploitation lack power decision making about Gender‐specific consequences high behaviors unintended pregnancies, lifelong maternal child poverty, developmental disabilities poor performance. Prevention efforts include community school‐based programs provide yield leisure time activities services promote retention. Social policy changes also needed to quality education career preparation interrupts multigenerational patterns teen pregnancy, maltreatment other social ills.