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Teens and Older Partners
Continuing Education
Self-Study Quiz
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Self-Study Quiz
- Older
boyfriend or girlfriend partners might have coercive sexual power over
younger adolescents because they:
- Bring
more resources, maturity, and status to a relationship.
- Have a social and developmental advantage over the younger adolescent.
- Are more likely to be sexually experienced.
- All of the above.
- Each year in the U.S. _______________ young women under the age of
20 become mothers.
- 200,000-300,000
- 400,000-500,000
- 600,000-700,000
- 700,000+
- Interest
in the issue of older partners in teenage pregnancy and childbearing
has waned considerably since a brief flurry of research activity and
policy proposals in:
- The
late 1980s.
- Early
to mid 1990s.
- Mid
to late 1990s.
- The
year 2000.
- "Teen
childbearing" and "teenage pregnancy" are defined by
the age of:
- The
male.
- The
female.
- The
male and female at time of conception.
- The
male and female at time of first sexual experience.
- According
to the first national birth registry statistics, in 1921:
- 91%
of babies born to mothers aged 15-19 had fathers over the age of
20.
- 70%
of babies born to mothers aged 10-14 had fathers over the age of
20.
- 29%
of babies born to mothers under age 15 had fathers over the age
of 25.
- All
of the above.
- State
of California statutory rape laws typically:
- Result
in a fine.
-
End in a federal trial.
- Apply
misdemeanor penalties.
- Apply
felony penalties.
- What
did author Michael Males state was a significant concern for the health
of infants born to teenage mothers?
- Higher
birth weight.
- Age
of the mother.
- Socio-economic
status.
- None
of the above.
- The birth
rate per 1,000 females age 15-19, with fathers under age 18 is highest
among:
- Latinos.
- Whites.
- Blacks.
- Asians.
- Teens
from _________ populations are more likely to have older partners.
- wealthy
- rural
- poorer, recent immigrant
- All
of the above.
- The HIV
infection rate is __________ times higher among teen women than teen
men.
- 3
- 6
- 9
- 12
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