Half Of Sexually Experienced Teenage Women In Jamaica Report Sexual Coercion - Nearly All Pregnancies Unintended

Forty-nine percent of 15-17-year-old women in Kingston, Jamaica, who were interviewed to identify risk factors for teen pregnancy reported having experienced sexual coercion or violence, and one-third stated that they had been persuaded or forced to participate in their first sexual experience.

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Filed under: Pediatrics on April 15th, 2009