title: The risk of adolescent pregnancy in the first months of intercourse.
abstract: Because of early age at initiation of intercourse and associated nonuse of contraception, half of first premarital pregnancies to teens occur in the first six months after they begin coitus; one-fifth occur in the first month. Programs to prevent adolescent pregnancy will not succeed unless they reach young people before they begin sexual activity.
mesh_terms: D000206:Actuarial Analysis; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D000367:Age Factors; D003267:Contraception; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence; D012306:Risk; D012736:Sex Education; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D044465:White People