teenage pregnancy

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The results show that controlling for confounding factors reduced the strength of the association between early conduct problems and later risk of teenagepregnancy.
For each group, the table shows the percentage of young women who had experienced a teenagepregnancy by the age of 18 years.
This result suggests the presence of a possible cause and effect relationship between the extent of early conduct problems and later risk of teenagepregnancy.
However, even after extensive efforts to control for the effects of confounding factors, childhood conduct problems remained a significant predictor of subsequent teenagepregnancy.
More generally, the results of this study suggest that the association between early conduct problems and later teenagepregnancy may arise by two general pathways.
This raises the issue of the risk factors and life processes that may intervene between early conduct problems and subsequent teenagepregnancy.
In both cases, control for confounding and intervening factors reduced the association between early conduct problems and later teenagepregnancy to statistical nonsignificance.
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