1.   Secondly, a much higher proportion of working-class women experiencing early loss and premarital pregnancy were found to be depressed than women in the same group without PMP.

2.   This model shows one route linking early loss to depression for working-class women through premarital pregnancy, and poor coping, making continued working-class status more likely.

3.   They are considered together here because of their close association with each other -- girls experiencing institutional care also show a particularly high rate of premarital pregnancy.

4.   Of the sixteen women in their survey who were currently working-class and had been in institutional care, ten had premarital pregnancies.

5.   Two others were also depressed, so out of the nine who had been in care and were currently depressed, seven had also had premarital pregnancies.

6.   Similarly, Harris and her colleagues suggested that helpless attitudes and ways of thinking are a link between childhood lack of care, premarital pregnancy and depression.

7.   Together, these studies suggest that knowledge about contraception and about family planning services, and the desire to become pregnant, by no means fully explain premarital pregnancy.

8.   There are drugs and alcohol to worry about, not to mention sex, AIDS, and premarital pregnancy.