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Breaking the Adolescent Parent Cycle: Valuing Fatherhood and Motherhood

Breaking the Adolescent Parent Cycle: Valuing Fatherhood and Motherhood

Westman, Jack C.

Paperback

Medical ReferenceGeneral PsychologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0761845364
ISBN13: 9780761845362
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: Jul 16 2009
Pages: 570
Weight: 2.38
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English
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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