What is it about?
This study examines the extent to which sexual and contraceptive behaviors are motivated by the pregnancy desires of young, causing them to have unplanned pregnancies.
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Why is it important?
Many unplanned pregnancies, especially in young women who are still early in their psychological and social development and not fully prepared for motherhood, cause life-long changes with a number of negative consequences. Understanding the pathways to such pregnancies helps inform policy interventions to prevent them.
Perspectives
In this study we use a theoretical framework that includes understudied aspects of motivation like ambivalence and indifference that that we have shown in previous research to be frequent antecedents to unplanned pregnancy.
Warren Miller
Transnational Family Research Institute
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This page is a summary of: MEDIATION MODELS OF PREGNANCY DESIRES AND UNPLANNED PREGNANCY IN YOUNG, UNMARRIED WOMEN, Journal of Biosocial Science, June 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0021932017000165.
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