- Title
- Teenage pregnancy and its ‘negative’ consequences: review of South African research - Part 1
- Creator
- Macleod, Catriona I
- Date Issued
- 1999
- Date
- 1999
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:6288
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014528
- Identifier
- http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/008124639902900101
- Description
- Teenage pregnancy emerged as a social issue within the United States in the 1970s, and somewhat later in South Africa. In this article I review South African research and literature concerning the consequences of teenage pregnancy, because it is on this level that teenage pregnancy is formulated as a problem. The literature is reviewed against the backdrop of some international research in order to provide a basis for comparison. Research on the disruption of schooling, socio-economic disadvantage, obstetric outcomes, inadequate mothering, neglect and abuse, relationship difficulties and demographic concerns is reviewed. Various gaps in the South African literature are identified. These include an inadequate theoretical grounding, a lack of gender and historical analyses, and no exploration of the power relations within which teenage pregnancy occurs.
- Description
- This article was written by Catriona Macleod in affiliation with the Department of Educational Psychology, University of Zululand
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Macleod, C. (1999). Teenage pregnancy and its ‘negative’ consequences: Review of South African research - Part 1. South African Journal of Psychology, 29(1), 1-7. http://sap.sagepub.com/content/29/1/1.abstract
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