Payne, Doug (2001) Babies of teenage mothers 60% more likely to die. British Medical Journal, 322, (7283), p. 386.
External website: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7283/386/c
A report on teenage parenting issues from an Irish parliamentary committee has said that the death rate for babies and very young children of teenage mothers is 60% higher than that for children of older women.
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