http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/issr_volume1/rss Recent eScholarship items from Volume I. 1985-86 - Fertility Studies Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:51:38 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/42x389nw <p>Adolescent fertility has become identified as a major social problem in the United States; however, little empirical data are available regarding the critical social variables which influence adolescent sexual behavior. While adolescents learn about sexuality from many sources, two major sources that influence adolescent attitudes toward sexual behavior are from persons who form their internal support network--family and peers. The adolescent's family and peers are instrumental in forming the adolescent's knowledge base about reproduc- tion, contraceptive use, and other sexual behavioral variables. The importance and role of these influences can differ when viewed in another cultural context. To date, little is known about differences in sexual behavior among culturally diverse adolescent groups nor... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/42x389nw Wed, 24 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0000 Becerra, Rosina M. Fielder, Eve P. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1cz5h2j9 <p>This article describes the social context of pregnancy, contraceptive knowlege, past birth control use and plans for future contraception for 233 adolescent women of Mexican origin and/or descent delivering their first child in one of two Los Angeles hospitals. The teenagers described here were part of a larger sample of 518 women interviewed in 1981 and 1982. Although this paper focuses on adolescents, the adult group is briefly discussed for purposes of comparison.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1cz5h2j9 Wed, 24 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0000 Erickson, Pamela I. Scrimshaw, Susan C.M.