and Cabral 2007; Sax 2010). New to this science of teenage pregnancy is the
reversal of the relationship between fertility and poverty; whereas earlier studies focused
on socio-economic disadvantage as a core determinant of teenage pregnancy, research has
begun to chart teenage pregnancy as a key cause of poverty itself (Hobcraft and Kiernam
1999; Luker 1996).
*Corresponding author. Email: dominique.behague@lshtm.ac.uk, dominique.behague@brunel.ac.uk
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