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Mixed Messages: Norms and Social Control around Teen Sex and Pregnancy

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Sex is bad. Unprotected sex is a problem. Having a baby would be a disaster. Abortion is a sin. Teenagers in the US hear conflicting messages about sex from everyone around them. How do teens have in mind these messages?

In Mixed Messages, Stefanie Mollborn examines how social norms and social regulate work through in-depth interviews with college students and teen moms and dads, revealing the tough conversations teeangers just can’t have with adults. Delving into teenagers’ complicated social worlds Mollborn argues that by creating informal social sanctions like gossip and exclusion and formal communication such as sex education, families, peers, schools, and communities strategize to gain regulate over teens’ behaviors. On the other hand, whilst teens strategize to keep regulate, they withstand the constraints of the norms, revealing the variety of outcomes that occur beyond compliance or deviance.

By showing that the norms existing today around teen sex are ineffective, failing to keep watch over sexual behavior, and as a substitute punishing teens that violate them, Mollborn calls for a more thoughtful and consistent dialogue between teens and adults, emphasizing messages which will lead to more positive health outcomes.

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