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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:555-556
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

Point-Counterpoint

Teen pregnancy is not a public health crisis in the United States. It is time we made it one

Janet Rich-Edwards

Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.

Strictly speaking, Lawlor and Shaw are correct. After adjusting for family background, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic position, educational success, and future prospects, many US studies show that teen mothers are as likely as older mothers to bear and raise healthy, successful children.1–6 After adjusting for being born to Texas oil barons and educated at Andover and Yale (throw in effect modification by paternal occupation), might you or I be the leader of the free world? Sure. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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