Lucky girls: unintentional avoidance of adolescent pregnancy among low-income African-American females.

Purpose: To describe lucky adolescents who unintentionally avoid pregnancy.

Design And Methods: The second phase of a descriptive qualitative study in which 17 low-income African-American females ages 19 to 26 participated in open-ended interviews on how they avoided pregnancy as adolescents.

Results: Constant comparative analysis revealed that five of the girls avoided pregnancy because they were "lucky" that others insisted they use contraceptives.