Insulation
As applied to interventions in the field of teenage pregnancy prevention, it is clear
that insulating young people from the harmful effects of sexual behavior has been
the major intervention choice by health professionals over the last two decades.
Since pregnancy at a young age is seen as being potentially harmful to both the
teenage parents and their offspring, health service providers have sought to proWWisconsin Family Impact Seminars 29
vide birth control services to young people, seeing use of contraceptives as potentially the most successful intervention in pregnancy prevention