Family and adolescent childbearing

To determine the risk factors for adolescent childbearing in Taiwan within the context of family.In this case-control study, the cases were 198 mothers aged < or =19 years with firstborn infants in Taichung City, Taiwan, in 1997. The controls were composed of nonchildbearing adolescents matched with the cases with respect to age and neighborhood for each case. A self-administered structured questionnaire asking about a variety of family factors...