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Del corazón de los jóvenes: What Latino teens are saying about love and relationships (2008)
Rarely are teens themselves asked to share their thoughts and beliefs about issues that affect them. Del corazón de los jóvenes—which in English roughly translates to “youth speak from the heart”—gives both teens and parents a snapshot of what Latino teens themselves say about relationships. This document is based on findings from a nationally-representative survey of Latino teens and adults, focus groups with Latino teens, and research previously published by The National Campaign.
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Families Matter: A Research Synthesis of Family Influences on Adolescent Pregnancy (1998)
by Brent C. Miller, Ph.D.
This report synthesizes research on the relationship between adult/parent actions and sexual risk-taking among teenagers and is accompanied by some new data on what parents actually do with their kids in the area of communication about sexuality and related issues.
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Kiss and Tell: What Teens Say About Love, Trust, and Other Relationship Stuff (2007)
Teens tend to get advice on all kinds of issues from parents,teachers, and other adults but rarely are young people themselves asked to describe their own thoughts and beliefs. We hope to balance the equation just a bit with Kiss and Tell, a snapshot of what teens are thinking about love and relationships. This brochure is a compilation of findings taken from a national survey of young people, key themes and quotes that emerged from a survey conducted on The National Campaign website, and from focus group research conducted in 2007 throughout the United States.
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Making a Love Connection: Teen Relationships, Pregnancy, and Marriage (2006)
by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead and Marline Pearson
This report makes a compelling case for decreasing teen pregnancy as one means to increase the proportion of children who grow up in healthy, married families. Discusses the increasingly prolonged passage from adolescence to adulthood and the extent to which young people are bombarded by sexual messages and note that many young people are in the dark about the economic and social benefits of a low-conflict and long-lasting marriage for men, women, and children. Whitehead and Pearson describe what they call the “success sequence”—the optimal timing of sex, marriage, and parenthood. They also outline ways to help teens develop positive expectations for their current and future relationships.
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Our Story, Our Words: Youth Speak Out on Sex, Love, and Teen Pregnancy (2007)
Teens get lots of advice from adults, but they usually aren't asked to offer their own. That's why The National Campaign asked teens growing up in foster care to tell us what they wanted to know about teen pregnancy prevention and what advice they would give to their peers. This handy, magazine-style brochure tells what teens have to say in their own words.
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Relationship Redux: Tips and Scripts for Talking to Your Kids About Relationships (2009)
Let’s face it, having meaningful conversations with your children about relationships is not for the faint of heart. This short publication provides some thoughts on what to say to your children about relationships and underscores why it is so important to discuss the topic. We hope that it provides parents with encouragement to get the relationship conversations started. Right away.
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Relationships in the Latino Community (2008)
Focusing on relationships is an important part of any effort to reduce teen pregnancy and to strengthen families and communities. By shedding some light on how Latino teens view relationships and by offering some possible characteristics of relationships shared among members of the Latino community, it is our hope that practitioners will gain a deeper understanding of Latino teens and how they can better serve them.
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Science Says #11: The Relationship between
Teenage Motherhood and Marriage (2004)
Many family-related factors affect how children fare and develop over time, and marriage is one of them. Research suggests that children do best when they are raised by two parents who have a stable marriage. Yet only 20 percent of teen births occur within marriage, and teen pregnancy itself is associated with a lower likelihood of marriage. This Science Says research brief examines the effects of teenage motherhood on marriage.
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Science Says #13: Younger Siblings of Teen Parents: At Increased Risk of Teen Pregnancy? (2004)
This research brief examines the evidence that younger siblings ofteen parents are at increased risk for teen pregnancy themselves, explores several theories as to why this might be, and discusses implications for prevention efforts.
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Science Says #16: Teens’ Attitudes Toward Marriage, Cohabitation, and Divorce, 2002 (2005)
This Science Says issue brief uses the most recent round of the NSFG, collected in 2002, to examine teens’ attitudes about marriage, divorce, and cohabitation.
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Science Says #34: Unplanned Pregnancy and Family Turmoil (2008)
Half of all pregnancies in the United States are unplanneda, and the majority of them are to unmarried young women in their 20s. While the consequences of unplanned pregnancy are not as well defined as those for teen pregnancy, a growing body of research confirms that there are a number of reasons to be concerned about unplanned pregnancy among young adults. Some of the risks are direct—such as late entry into prenatal care—and some appear to amplify and exacerbate a variety of risks to child and family wellbeing that may exist before an unplanned pregnancy itself.
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Teen Motherhood and Marriage
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Why It Matters: Teen Pregnancy, Out-of-Wedlock Births, Healthy Relationships, and Marriage (2007)
Reducing teen pregnancy will decrease out-of-wedlock childbearing and increase the percentage of children born to married couples. While the majority of non-marital births are to adult women, the teen years are frequently a time when unmarried families are first formed—a strong rationale for focusing on teens in any broad effort to reduce out-of-wedlock childbearing and strengthen marriage.
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