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Contraceptive knowledge and sexual behavior in female adolescents

Ethnographic interviews with pregnant Mexican-American and Native-American adolescents and young adults from low-income households explored their knowledge about conception and contraception as well as their contraceptive and sexual behavior. The findings suggest that their unwanted pregnancies are not due to a lack of knowledge but rather are due to their heteronomous sexual behavior which results in infrequent contraceptive usage and thereby a risk of unwanted pregnancy.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/278357
Date January 1993
CreatorsBieger, Susanne Regine, 1966-
ContributorsPhilips, Susan U.
PublisherThe University of Arizona.
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typetext, Thesis-Reproduction (electronic)
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