Breaking the Adolescent Parent Cycle
eBook - ePub

Breaking the Adolescent Parent Cycle

Valuing Fatherhood and Motherhood

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eBook - ePub

Breaking the Adolescent Parent Cycle

Valuing Fatherhood and Motherhood

About this book

This book addresses the dilemma created by the discrepancy between our efforts to prevent adolescent pregnancy and our support of adolescent parenthood, which the author argues is America's greatest unrecognized public health crisis. It is the most preventable cause of crime and welfare dependency, and because we hold no expectations for parents who conceive and give birth to children, rates of child neglect and abuse in the United States far exceed those of other developed nations. Westman explores the circumstances and values that make motherhood seem to be girls' best option and that induce males to conceive without the ability to support their children. It proposes a feasible legal procedure as the basis for ensuring that adolescents' babies have competent parents with the resources and environments they need.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Prolog
  5. Part 1 THE PROBLEM
  6. Part 2 THEORETICAL FOUNDATION
  7. Part 3 THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESS
  8. Part 4 THE DYNAMICS OF ADOLESCENT PARENTHOOD
  9. Part 5 FAMILIES
  10. Part 6 NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES
  11. Part 7 CULTURE
  12. Part 8 SOCIETY
  13. Part 9 SOLUTIONS
  14. Part 10 CONCLUSION
  15. Notes