The Culture of Teenage Mothers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Culture of Teenage Mothers write by Joanna Gregson. This book was released on 2010-07-02. The Culture of Teenage Mothers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores teen mothers’ perceptions of their situations and the social stigma that affects them.
Proving They Can Parent
Proving They Can Parent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Proving They Can Parent write by Joanna Gregson Higginson. This book was released on 1998. Proving They Can Parent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
On Becoming a Teen Mom
On Becoming a Teen Mom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Becoming a Teen Mom write by Mary Patrice Erdmans. This book was released on 2015-02-06. On Becoming a Teen Mom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 2013, New York City launched a public education campaign with posters of frowning or crying children saying such things as “I’m twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen” and “Honestly, Mom, chances are he won’t stay with you.” Campaigns like this support a public narrative that portrays teen mothers as threatening the moral order, bankrupting state coffers, and causing high rates of poverty, incarceration, and school dropout. These efforts demonize teen mothers but tell us nothing about their lives before they became pregnant. In this myth-shattering book, the authors tell the life stories of 108 brown, white, and black teen mothers, exposing the problems in their lives often overlooked in pregnancy prevention campaigns. Some stories are tragic and painful, marked by sexual abuse, partner violence, and school failure. Others depict "girl next door" characters whose unintended pregnancies lay bare insidious gender disparities. Offering a fresh perspective on the links between teen births and social inequalities, this book demonstrates how the intersecting hierarchies of gender, race, and class shape the biographies of young mothers.
Black Teenage Mothers
Black Teenage Mothers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Teenage Mothers write by Constance Willard Williams. This book was released on 1991. Black Teenage Mothers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this ground-breaking book, Constance Williams reveals why, contrary to the adverse outcomes previously attributed to their lot, many black teenage mothers consider their lives enriched by childbearing. Here is a poignant exploration of themeaning of pregnancy and motherhood to young women who, although impoverished, express hope as freely tell their stories and reveal new truths about their attitudes. Williams discoverss that it is more often socialization -- not ignorance -- that leads black teens into motherhood at such a young age. She also reveals why early childbearing for these teens may well be an adaptive and even reasonable response to their social and cultural realities.
Not Our Kind of Girl
Not Our Kind of Girl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Not Our Kind of Girl write by Elaine Bell Kaplan. This book was released on 2023-04-28. Not Our Kind of Girl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most worrisome images in America today is that of the teenage mother. For the African-American community, that image is especially troubling: All the problems of the welfare system seem to spotlight the black teenage mom. Elaine Bell Kaplan's affecting and insightful book dispels common perceptions of these young women. Her interviews with the women themselves, and with their mothers and grandmothers, provide a vivid picture of lives caught in the intersection of race, class, and gender. Kaplan challenges the assumption conveyed in the popular media that the African-American community condones teen pregnancy, single parenting, and reliance on welfare. Especially telling are the feelings of frustration, anger, and disappointment expressed by the mothers and grandmothers Kaplan interviewed. And in listening to teenage mothers discuss their problems, Kaplan hears first-hand of their misunderstandings regarding sex, their fraught relationships with men, and their difficulties with the educational system—all factors that bear heavily on their status as young parents. Kaplan's own experience as an African-American teenage mother adds a personal dimension to this book, and she offers substantial proposals for rethinking and reassessing the class factors, gender relations, and racism that influence black teenagers to become mothers.
