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, and * the baby's father.
| ISBN: | 9781138965966 |
| Publication date: | 2nd September 2016 |
| Author: | Patricia L. East, Marianne E. Felice |
| Publisher: | Psychology Press Ltd an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 166 pages |
| Series: | Research Monographs in Adolescence Series |
| Genres: |
Sociology: family and relationships Age groups: children Age groups: adolescents Social and ethical issues |