“…Society is, at the end of the day, still going to stigmatize you no matter which way”: A qualitative study of the impact of stigma on social support during unintended pregnancy in early adulthood

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Unintended pregnancy in adolescence and early adulthood is stigmatized in the United States because it deviates from social norms that consider young people's sexuality as a social problem. While limited, prior research has found that this stigma prevents young people from telling people in their lives about their pregnancies, for fear of judgment or negative reactions. We hypothesized that this selective...

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