‘Adolescent Pregnancy’ 1: Social problem, public health concern, or neither

Macleod, Catriona I; Feltham-King, Tracey

Title: ‘Adolescent Pregnancy’ 1: Social problem, public health concern, or neither
Creator: Macleod, Catriona I
Creator: Feltham-King, Tracey
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2019
Date: 2019
Type: text
Type: book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/434031
Identifier: vital:73027
Identifier: ISBN 9781351035620
Identifier: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351035620-17/adolescent-pregnancy-1-catriona-ida-macleod-tracey-feltham-king
Description: In this chapter we outline three major approaches to adolescent pregnancy. The first is the ‘social problem’ approach, in which adolescent pregnancy is viewed as, for the most part, deleterious for the young woman, her offspring, and society. This position fuels public outrage when the numbers of pregnant adolescents (especially when they are school pupils) are revealed in newspapers. The second is a public health response, which is well established and which has much institutional kudos. Here the neutral language of population-wide health is used to underpin preventive efforts in relation to adolescent pregnancy. In the third approach, authors point to the problems underlying both of these positions, arguing that arbitrarily separating younger pregnant women from older pregnant women is premised on particular power relations.
Format: 37 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: CGSPACE: A Repository of Agricultral Research Outputs
Language: English
Relation: Macleod, C.I. and Feltham-King, T., 2019. ‘Adolescent Pregnancy’1: Social problem, public health concern, or neither?. In Routledge International Handbook of Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health (pp. 253-265). Routledge
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