Which of the following may be true of an unwed pregnant adolescent?
A. She may not understand how she got pregnant.
B. She will substitute her previous role of daughter for the role of mother.
C. She should have no difficulty forming intimate relationships in the future.
D. She will quickly establish her independence so that she will be able to care for the baby.
A
Parents may or may not discuss reproduction and sexual issues with their teens. Schools may or may not have sex education in the curriculum. The content may be inaccurate or superficial and lead to misinterpretation by the adolescent, so that she may have no understanding of how pregnancy occurs. Because the adolescent may have inadequate coping skills to manage the transition to parenthood and parenting responsibilities, she may have difficulty establish-ing her independence as a mother and relinquishing her role as daughter. Many adolescent mothers tend to have closely spaced repeated pregnancies, creating family instability, im-paired parenting, and inability to form a stable relationship.
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