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Papeles de población
On-line version ISSN 2448-7147Print version ISSN 1405-7425
Abstract
GONZALEZ GALBAN, Humberto. Adolescent pregnancy development in the Cuban sociodemographic contexts: Conditioners and implications. Pap. poblac [online]. 2005, vol.11, n.46, pp.223-244. ISSN 2448-7147.
Cuba is a developing country that has advanced significantly in its demographic transition and that simultaneously counts with reliable registers on different events related to adolescent pregnancy, which has offered the possibility of gathering and presenting reliable elements on sociodemographic aspects of early gestation, to which has been corroborated, or put in doubt in other cases, existing paradigms around this important topic. The work shows the problem of the adolescent pregnancy in sociodemographic terms, related to its different degree of manifestation, conditioners and social implications, on Cuban context.
Keywords : adolescent; adolescent pregnancy; sexual life; fecundity; Cuba.