"A new Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center study, published in the eFirst pages of the journal Pediatrics, shows that teen childbirth rates are more than 20 percent for abused and neglected teens. This compares to the national teen childbirth rate of approximately 4 percent....
"The finding holds true even after taking into account such factors as race, family income and whether the family was a one- or two-parent household.
"Teen victims of sexual abuse may have distinct approaches to sex and sexual activity that can be attributed to traumatic sexualization," says Jennie Noll, PhD, director of research in Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology at Cincinnati Children's and the study's lead author...."
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