Life events associated with adolescent pregnancies.

A retrospective study of the life events reported by 121 pregnant adolescents and 261 controls has disproved the null hypothesis that those 2 groups are 2 random samples from the same population. The pregnant girls differ markedly in terms of the events that occurred within their families. Most striking among these events was the greater number of deaths of family members reported by the pregnant girls. Clearly, a prospective study is needed to confirm the findings.