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Abstract
Teenage pregnancy is an important adolescent health issue.1 Pregnancy outcomes in teenagers are generally poor with high rates of preterm birth and other complications.2 In the long term, families in which the mother was a teenager at first birth have greater use of public health care and social security than those with older mothers, and the teenagers themselves often fail to fulfil their educational, occupational, and economic potential.1 It is therefore unsurprising that governments have scrambled for a magic pill--or in this case a magic doll--to cure their woes. Fathers in the setting of teenage pregnancy are a vulnerable group with increased rates of anxiety, depression, drug and alcohol misuse, exposure to family violence, and educational disadvantage compared with older fathers.6 They are more likely to be fatalistic and rebellious in personality profiling,7 and as such it is difficult to imagine them responding with enthusiasm to carrying around an infant simulator for a week.