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According to Dodson, she believes the study is significant because it has altered the debate over welfare reform...
...fact not a single girl mentioned welfare or any form of public assistance [as a reason to get pregnant]," Dodson says...
...Dodson said that she worked with a group of ethnically diverse low-income girls in the greater Boston area to get her data. Rather than making assumptions about teenage pregnancy, Dodson says the researchers asked the girls what they thought the main issues involved were...
...About 60 percent of the girls who were sexually active said they didn't think they were ready at the time that they began to have sex," Dodson adds, "but that they felt a lot of pressure to establish relationships with guys...
...Dodson says that many of the girls studied said they felt sexual pressure and believed they had few options in life and no real future if they did not get pregnant...