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... It explains that the high rate may be due to low expectations, ignorance and mixed messages of the teenager. This is relevant to my coursework as these factors apply to all teenage mothers including my study group. Wellings, K. and Wadsworth, J. (1999), in their "Family Influence on Teenage Fertility," looks at different factors of the family that may have an effect on teenage pregnancy. Their study found that there is an increased likelihood of the daughters of teenage mothers becoming teenage mothers themselves. This is relevant to my coursework, as I will look into whether teenage pregnancy in these situations is due to the socialisation of the child and why it is not prevented. This leads me to my first concept, teenage pregnancy, which is the rate at which girls as teenagers become pregnant per year. In 1998 there were 44,100 pregnancies in the 16-18 age group and 8,400 among the ...