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Peer reviewedYampolskaya, Svetlana; Brown, Eric C.; Greenbaum, Paul E. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2002
A study involving 109 female adolescents with serious emotional disturbances (ages 9-18) found the following risk factors for early pregnancy: being African American, low family income, dropping out of school, conduct disorder, and substance use disorder. However, according to multivariate analysis, only dropping out of school was a significant…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Dropouts, Early Parenthood
