Correlation of moral development with use of birth control and pregnancy among teenage girls.

Abstract

Persons who are responsible for designing programs for teenage girls would be assisted by a relevant theory of moral development and decision making. A study of 75 teenage girls indicated no statistically significant differences in moral development when comparing pregnant and never pregnant girls, responsible and non-responsible birth control users, and those who chose to abort and those who continued the pregnancy. Significant differences in moral development were found between those who had taken a sex education course and those who had not.