- Title
- Pregnancy Decision Making: Abortion and Adoption
- Creator
- Mavuso, Jabulile M-J J, Macleod, Catriona I
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/434145
- Identifier
- vital:73034
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781119161899
- Identifier
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119171492
- Description
- Pregnancy decision making encompasses a large range of interactions, including decisions and actions to avoid pregnancy or to become pregnant. This entry addresses the question of decision making regarding the outcome of a pregnancy: abortion or taking the pregnancy to term, with the latter resulting in parenting or adoption placement. Adolescents' pregnancy decision making has been a special area of focus for some decades now, particularly regarding whether adolescents are capable of making termination-of-pregnancy decisions. This entry highlights controversies concerning, first, teenage pregnancy as a social problem; second, risk research that seeks to outline the consequences of various reproductive decisions; third, questions around adolescents' maturity regarding making reproductive decisions; fourth, the reasons provided for various reproductive decisions; and, finally, issues surrounding the autonomy of young pregnant women in their reproductive decisions.
- Format
- 9 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Mavuso, J.M.J.J. and Macleod, C.I., 2019. Pregnancy Decision Making: Abortion and Adoption. The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development, pp.1-10
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
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