Teenage Pregnancy and Social Policy: A review of the literature
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Introduction The purpose of this chapter is to review the available literature focusing on the areas of policy relating to teenage pregnancy under exploration in this thesis. Having presented the various trends in teenage pregnancy and related rates as well as associated and causal factors in the previous chapter, this chapter begins by providing further explanation as to why the three particular areas of policy chosen for exploration were sex education, sexual health and education. The remainder of this chapter then concentrates on reviewing the available literature for those three policy areas.
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