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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:552-553
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

Point-Counterpoint

Too much too young? Teenage pregnancy is not a public health problem

Debbie A Lawlor and Mary Shaw

Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK.

CAPULET
But saying o'er what I have said before:
My child is yet a stranger in the world;
She hath not seen the change of fourteen years,
Let two more summers wither in their pride,
Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.

PARIS
Younger than she are happy mothers made.

CAPULET
And too soon marr'd are those so early made.

Romeo and Juliet Act I Scene II. William Shakespeare, (c. 1594)

Debates about the appropriate age at which a woman should become a mother are not new, but it is only in recent decades that, in Britain at least, teenage pregnancy has become labelled alongside cardiovascular disease, cancer and mental health as a major public health problem.1 In this paper we will argue that teenage pregnancy should not be conceptualized as a public health problem and suggest that this label is rather a reflection of what is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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