Jenita Parekh

Open AccessArticle by Andrea Vazzano *, Sydney Briggs †, Lisa Kim †, Jenita Parekh and Jennifer Manlove Child Trends, 7315 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1200W, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. † These authors contributed equally to this work. Int. J. Environ. Res.

Ideally, the decisions to have sex and use contraception are made by two consenting individuals. It seems logical, then, that initiatives to reduce teen and unplanned pregnancy should include men. However, this hasn’t always been the case, as policy and program prevention efforts have almost exclusively focused on women. Research also suggests that many young men think that avoiding pregnancy is a woman’s responsibility.