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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1987. Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing, Volume II: Working Papers and Statistical Appendices. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/946.
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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1987. Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing, Volume II: Working Papers and Statistical Appendices. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/946.
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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1987. Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing, Volume II: Working Papers and Statistical Appendices. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/946.
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VOLUME 11 - ~VIU~ Ace e' l.e la e Adolescent Sexuality; Pregnant, and Childbearing WORKING PAPERS AND STATISTICAl APPENDIXES Sandra L. Hofferth and Cheryl D. Hayes, Editors Pane] on Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing Committee on Child Development Research and Public Policy Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education National Research Council NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS Washington, D.C. 1987

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Panel on Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbeanng DANIEL D. FEDERMAN (Chair), Harvard Medical School WENDY H. BALDWIN, Center for Population Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development EZRA C. DAVIDSON, JR., Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School JOY G. DRYFOOS, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York JACQUELINE D. FORREST, Alan Guttmacher Institute, New York FRANK F. FURSTENBERG, JR., Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania BEATRIX A. HAMBURG, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, City University of New York RICHARD JESSOR, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado JUDITH E. JONES, Center for Population and Family Health, Columbia University . . FRANK LEVY, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland ROBERT H. MNOOKIN, Stanford Law School KRISTIN A. MOORE, Child Trends, Inc., Washington, D.C. ROSS D. PARKE, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois HAROLD A. RICHMAN, Chapin Hall Center for Children, National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago MARIS VINOVSKIS, Department of History, University of Michigan CHERYL D. HAYES, Study Director SANDRA L. HOFFERTH, Adviser MARGARET E. ENSMINGER, Consultant DEE ANN L. WENK, Statistical Consultant CELIA SHAPIRO, Staff Assistant

Committee on Child Development Research and Public Policy WILLIAM A. MORRILL (Chair), Mathtech, Inc., Princeton WILLIAM KESSEN (Vice Chair), Department of Psychology, Yale University EUGENE S. BARDACH, School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley DONALD T. CAMPBELL, Department of Social Relations, Lehigh University DAVID L. CHAMBERS, School of Law, University of Michigan FELTON EARLS, School of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis DORIS R. ENTWISLE, Department of Social Relations, Johns Hopkins University FRANK F. FURSTENBERG, JR., De ?artment of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania HERBERT GINSBURG, Department of Human Development, Columbia University SHEILA B. KAMERMAN, School of Social Work, Columbia University LUIS M. LAOSA, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.~. SAMUEL J. MESSICK, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J. JOHN MODELL, Department of History and Philosophy, Carnegie-Mellon University T.M. JIM PARHAM, School of Social Work, University of Georgia MICHAEL L. RUTTER, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London EUGENE SMOLENSKY, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin BARBARA STARFIELD, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University CAROL K. WHALEN, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine DANIEL D. FEDERMAN (ex officio), Chair, Pane! on Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing tV

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More than 1 million teenage girls in the United States become pregnant each year; nearly half give birth. Why do these young people, who are hardly more than children themselves, become parents? The statistical appendices and working papers for the report Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing provide additional insight into the trends in and consequences of teenage sexual behavior.

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