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Globally in 2022, an estimated 13 per cent of adolescent girls and young women give birth before age 18.

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Laiasolagonzalez (talk) 16:21, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Forced to have sex with

In Teenage pregnancy#Sexual abuse, there's a sentence that reads In 2003, one in five teenage fathers admitted to forcing girls to have sex with them. Isn't that a convulated way of saying those girls were raped or is there some nuance to the phrasing here that I'm missing? Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 09:10, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]