The wide interindividual variability of the outcome of the mother-child couple after birth is well known. The stereotype of the ‘single unwed mother’ with no qualifications and no resources who is inclined to abandon her…

A teenage pregnancy, and even more so when the girl is very young, is often discovered late for many reasons: ignorance, fear of talking about it, absence of an interlocutor, anxiety…

The changes in the law concerning abortions were published in the Journal Officiel of the French Republic on July 7, 2001. Essentially, the following two points were revised: (1) the legal…

Life-threatening behavior, like smoking, drugs, violence and suicide attempts, are used by the adolescent to cope with a feeling of not being appreciated, boredom, isolation, and a lack of goals and future plans.…

Very few studies have attempted to evaluate the risk of malformations in this population, even though it is clearly a population at risk because it is widely exposed to factors strongly thought to…

Aggression during the course of the pregnancy can take different forms: societal and parental, but the medical community also contributes. First of all, there is verbal violence. As the desire to conceive during…

French legislation clearly addresses the pregnancy of teenagers who are minors (under 18 years of age). In France, an unmarried minor alone: (1) can decide to pursue her pregnancy; (2) can legally…

All the data collected over many years show that the earlier the pregnancy occurs, the more it risks being terminated by abortion.

The 1997 information…

Teenage pregnancy is neither the result of an accident nor that of destiny.

With the exception of rape or incestuous relationships, it is very rare that an adolescent becomes pregnant by…

Demographic and epidemiological studies have quantified adolescent pregnancies as follows.

Teenage Pregnancy Rate
This frequency, expressed per 1,000 persons, is the total number of pregnancies (births, abortions and miscarriages) for young…