TY - JOUR T1 - Pregnant Adolescents and Youth with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Can New Data Inform Our Approach to Young Women with SLE? JF - The Journal of Rheumatology JO - J Rheumatol SP - 1240 LP - 1241 VL - 35 IS - 7 AU - MIRIAM KAUFMAN Y1 - 2008/07/01 UR - http://www.jrheum.org/content/35/7/1240.abstract N2 - Pregnancy in women under the age of 20 years has been the norm for most of history. Changes that include increased control of reproduction through use of contraceptive methods and abortion, societal demand for education for girls, and increased length of education for all have led to increasing maternal age in developed countries over the past century. As the age of childbirth has gone up, teenage pregnancy has been increasingly identified as a problem associated with poverty, poor educational outcomes, single parenting, domestic violence, and other issues1. Adolescent pregnancy in healthy teens has been examined extensively in the United States;… ER -