Generating community awareness and intent to reduce teen pregnancy in a community occurs with relative ease. As intervention strategies and methods are proposed and made known in the planning process, controversies surface and create conflict among some community members. The personal values, moral issues, and politics underlying the opposition to multicomponent interventions are described. Recommendations to defuse resistance and acquire support within the community are provided.
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