Contraceptive Patterns And Premarital Pregnancy Among Women Aged 15-19 in 1976
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TL;DR
About 780,000 teenagers experience a premarital pregnancy each year; if they weren't using contraception, an additional 680,000 would become pregnant--a total of 1,460,000; if all who did not want a baby were practicing contraception consistently, the number of pregnancies could be reduced by at least 313,000.
Abstract
About 780,000 teenagers experience a premarital pregnancy each year. If they weren't using contraception, an additional 680,000 would become pregnant--a total of 1,460,000. However, if all who did not want a baby were practicing contraception consistently, we could reduce the number of pregnancies by at least 313,000. Only 467,000 would become pregnant, and half of these pregnancies would be wanted.