Black teenage pregnancy: A dynamic social problem

SAGE Open

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-14

  Winters, Loretta I ^a   Winters, Paul C ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacks; Ses; Teenage pregnancy; Whites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874764476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21582440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2158244012436563     Document Type: Article

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