Resumen

GONZALEZ GALBAN, Humberto. Aspectos teóricos para el estudio sociodemográfico del embarazo adolescente. Frontera norte [online]. 2000, vol.12, n.23, pp.65-85. ISSN 2594-0260.

Teenage pregnancy has received lately increasing attention worldwide. This interest is due to its common prevalence in many regions as well as to the personal, family and social implications attached to it. This situation has encouraged research on teenage pregnancy, altough current research has serious limitations. This article examines teenage pregnancy from a sociodemographic perspective and criticizes the assumptions commonly made in the literature on this topic.