Preventing Adolescent Pregnancy: Model Programs and Evaluations (SAGE Focus Editions)

Unplanned teenage pregnancy is one of the most challenging problems facing society today. To meet this challenge, a number of programmes designed to prevent unplanned pregnancies among adolescents have been launched. But which ones are the most successful?

In this volume, researchers, evaluators and programme directors collectively examine the best designed and most extensively evaluated adolescent pregnancy prevention programmes. These cover education, contraception and other approaches, and encompass a variety of school, medical and community settings.

Professor James C. Peterson is the C. C. Dickson Associate Professor of Ethics at Wingate University. He has been a Research Fellow in Molecular and Clinical Genetics at the University of Iowa, earned a Ph. D. in Ethics at the University of Virginia, and is an ordained minister. His interdisciplinary work has led to being named a Fellow by the American Scientific Affiliation, a Fellow of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, to a Templeton Award, and to a research group regularly hosted by faculty of Oxford University. His book, Genetic Turning Points: the Ethics of Human Genetic Intervention, has just been released. Please visit www.eerdmans.com for additional information.