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. 1997 Mar;47(416):175–176.

Like mother, like daughter: a general practice study of maternal influences on teenage pregnancy.

C J Seamark 1, D J Pereira Gray 1
PMCID: PMC1312927  PMID: 9167324

Abstract

This study confirmed the hypothesis that pregnant teenagers in the 1990s are more likely to have a mother who had a teenage pregnancy than non-pregnant teenagers. It also found that the daughters of teenage mothers are more likely to continue their own pregnancies.

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