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Acceptability and use-effectiveness of contraception for teenagers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2011

Ruth Coles
Ruth Coles
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Brook Advisory Centre (Avon), Bristol
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There is a mass of evidence supporting the belief that adolescents are sexually active but do not use contraception, or do not use it effectively. There are a number of factors which may account for this:

(1) a belief in spontaneous behaviour; (2) lack of acceptance of their sexuality by themselves and by others, especially their parents and their teachers; (3) inadequate sex education; (4) inhibitions about obtaining contraception and actual difficulties encountered.

These headings are very arbitrary since all these factors are inter-related and it is difficult to know where to start.

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III. Contraception and abortion in teenagers
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 10 , supplement S5: Fertility in Adolescence , 1978 , pp. 159 - 170
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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