title: Public discourses about teenage pregnancy: disruption, restoration, and ideology.
abstract: Two recent incidents in the United States generated a wealth of public discourses about a particular reproductive health issue: adolescent childbearing. As the media, political pundits, and private citizens pondered the meaning of these events, they expressed viewpoints, explanations, and possible solutions in mass-mediated outlets. We examined the discourses communicated in such outlets to understand how public discussion of teenage pregnancy reveals ideological assumptions about reproductive health, ideal family forms, and the expected life course.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Cavanaugh Hall, 425 University Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA. jjbute@iupui.edu
authors.forename: Jennifer J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Bute
authors.forename: Laura D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Russell
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008402:Mass Media; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence; D011639:Public Opinion; D014481:United States