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Social change in adolescent sexual behavior, mate selection, and premarital pregancy rates in a Kikuyu communityarticle 1987 • Worthman, Carol M. & Whiting, John Wesley Mayhew
Gikuyu • Africa > Eastern Africa
This study discusses adolescent fertility and marriage patterns in Ngecha village, Kenya. Comparing data from 1950 with that of 1980, the study shows substantial increases in rate of unwed motherhood. The author accounts this increase to broad cultur...