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Risk factors for teenage pregnancy
| • Poverty (the strongest risk factor) |
| • Looked-after children (children “in care”) |
| • Children of teenage mothers |
| • Low educational achievement |
| • Poor transition from school to work at age 16 years |
| • Sexual abuse |
| • Mental health problems |
| • Crime |
