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To provide comprehensive family planning services to adolescents requires going beyond the provision of birth control methods. To determine other needs, all women 18 years old and under attending Planned Parenthood of New York City clinics for the first time during a six week sample period were interviewed. Data were collected from 476 adolescents. Results indicated that: (a) there were no significant differences between the needs of 16, 17 and 18-year-olds for contraceptive, pregnancy detection and abortion services; (b) there was a direct relationship with age and ability to turn to others for social support, with almost one-third of the 15-year-olds telling no-one about their receipt of family planning services; (c) there were relationships between "crisis" orientation of service and age and the nature of the persons whom the teenager had or could talk to regarding her service; (d) less than one-third of the parents were aware of their children's needs for services, with lack of involvement not related to general family relationships but to the adolescents' expectations of parents' specific reactions. The results are discussed in terms of expanding services to reach younger adolescents and the need for developing social support systems for the teenager. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]