Prevalence of Coercive Sexual Experience Among Teenage Mothers

• NCJ Number: 118532
• Journal: Journal of Interpersonal Violence Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Dated: (June 1989) Pages: 204-219
• Author(s): H P Gershenson; J S Musick; H S Ruch-Ross; V Magee; K K Rubino; D Rosenberg
• Date Published: 1989
• Length: 16 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This study examined the prevalence of coercive sexual experience in a population of teenage mothers.

Abstract

In all, sixty-one percent of the respondents reported such experiences and one-third had experienced unwanted sexual intercourse. The victims generally knew the perpetrators; nearly thirty percent had been abused by a family member. Nonfamily perpetrators tended to be boy friends, dates and friends of the young mothers. The prevalence rates were roughly equivalent to those reported by Russell and Wyatt. Tables, notes and 20 references. (Author Abstract modified).