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Making a Love Connection: Teen Relationships, Pregnancy, and Marriage


  Author: Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Marline Pearson
Publisher: The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Publication:
Document Date:                  2006
Category: Marriage > Marital Age
Related Categories:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Sexual Activity
Adolescence/Youth > Dating
Marriage > Courtship
Marriage > Marriage Education
Sexuality > Sexual Attitudes
 

This paper argues that teen sexual education programs place too much focus on managing the risks of teen sexual behaviour and not enough focus on the nature of male-female relationships.  The paper argues that teens lack "a normative sequence for the timing of sex, marriage and parenthood" and those who dream of having a successful marriage someday would benefit from education on the value of completing their education, bearing children after they are married and not marrying in their teenage years.

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