Sexual intercourse, abuse and pregnancy among adolescent women: Does sexual orientation make a difference?

Family Planning Perspectives

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 127-131

  Saewyc, Elizabeth M ^a   Bearinger, Linda H ^b   Blum, Robert Wm ^c   Resnick, Michael D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; COUNSELING; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; LESBIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE;

ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADOLESCENTS; ADOLESCENTS, FEMALE; AGE FACTORS; AMERICAS; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGY; CHILD ABUSE; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE; CRIME; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FAMILY PLANNING; FERTILITY; HOMOSEXUALS--WOMEN; MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREMARITAL SEX BEHAVIOR; PROSTITUTES--WOMEN; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RESEARCH REPORT; RISK FACTORS; SEX BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL ABUSE; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN; YOUTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; BISEXUALITY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE;

EID: 0033012437     PISSN: 00147354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2991695     Document Type: Article

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