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Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting: Findings from a Racially Diverse Sample. - book reviews

Written by a pediatrician/adolescent medicine specialist and a developmental psychologist, this book is a collection of comprehensive studies on adolescent pregnancy and parenting. More than two hundred adolescents in an ethnically diverse sample were studied prenatally and at regular six-month intervals for three and a half years postpartum.

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Most of the teens were poor, unmarried, first-time mothers who resided in a poor urban area. The purpose of this book is 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.

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Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting: Findings from a Racially Diverse Sample. - book reviews

Adolescence, Spring, 1998

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