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Why do teenagers become pregnant?
There are several theories about why some teenagers
become pregnant. These include wanting someone to love them,
being heavily influenced by the sexual messages in the
media, living in negative family environments, not having
clear goals for the future, not understanding how to prevent
pregnancy, being sexually abused as child, and peer
pressure.
In reality, when a teenager becomes pregnant, it is probably a combination of the factors listed above, as well as other unidentified reasons over which the teenager may have little or no control.
Lynn Blinn Pike, Ph.D., Former Human Development & Family Studies Specialist, College of Human Environmental Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia
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