Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting

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Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting

Findings From A Racially Diverse Sample

Sociology: family and relationships Materno-foetal medicine / perinatology Paediatric medicine

Authors: Patricia L. East, Marianne E. Felice

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Collection: Research Monographs in Adolescence Series

Language: English

Published by: Psychology Press

Published on: 4th April 2014

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9781317843979


Written by a pediatrician/adolescent medicine specialist and a developmental psychologist, this book is a collection of informative, nonredundant yet comprehensive studies on adolescent pregnancy and parenting. More than 200 adolescent women in an ethnically diverse sample were studied prenatally and at regular 6-month intervals for 3½ years postpartum. Most of the teens were poor, unmarried, first-time mothers who resided within Southeast San Diego, a poor urban area approximately 10 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border.

The purpose of this book was to offer researchers, practitioners, program directors, teachers, and graduate and medical students a better understanding of teenage pregnancy and parenthood within the following domains:

Adolescent prenatal care and postpartum maternal and infant health outcomes

Immediate repeat pregnancy

Adolescent mothers' parenting

The role of the adolescent's mother in teenage mothers' parenting

The baby's father

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