Research Monographs in Adolescence Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting: Findings From A Racially Diverse Sample, (Hardcover)

<p>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 31/2 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. </p><p> 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: <br> * adolescent prenatal care and postpartum maternal and infant health outcomes, <br> * immediate repeat pregnancy, <br> * adolescent mothers' parenting, <br> * the role of the adolescent's mother in teenage mothers' parenting, and<br> * the baby's father.</p>

• Research Monographs in Adolescence Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting: Findings From A Racially Diverse Sample, (Hardcover)
• Author: Psychology Press
• ISBN: 9780805814705
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 1996-07-01
• Page Count: 166