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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1986
This document presents a report on teenage pregnancy. A letter to Senator John Chafee, who requested information on teenage pregnancy, gives major findings about the extent of the problem and describes the four procedures used to obtain the information: (1) an analysis of main features of two Congressional bills to amend the Aid to Families with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Early Parenthood, Federal Legislation, High Risk Persons
Peer reviewedApfel, Nancy H.; Seitz, Victoria – Family Relations, 1991
Presents four conceptual models of familial adaptation to adolescent pregnancy discerned from interviews with African-American adolescent mothers (n=119) and their mothers (n=103): Parental Replacement; Parental Supplement; Supported Primary Parent; and Parental Apprentice. Claims framework provides method for better understanding of triadic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Early Parenthood, Grandparents
McDonough, Susan C. – Journal of Children in Contemporary Society, 1984
Reviews literature on intervention programs for adolescent mothers. Focuses on specific goals: minimizing obstetrical complications, fostering positive parent-child interactions, reducing social isolation and maximizing support, and eliminating repeat out-of-wedlock pregnancies. Reports that all programs reviewed displayed moderate success, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Rearing, Early Parenthood, Parent Child Relationship
Ooms, Theodora; Herendeen, Lisa – 1990
This report contains highlights from a seminar on teenage pregnancy prevention programs. Comments by these panelists are summarized: Kristin Moore, senior research associate, Child Trends, Inc.; Dennis McBride, consultant for the Adolescent Family Life Office; Susan Newcomer, consultant for the National Institute of Child Health and Development;…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Early Parenthood, Family Planning, Federal Government
Hodgkinson, Harold L.; Outtz, Janice Hamilton – 1993
There is no national policy on assisting drug-using pregnant mothers nor on the children they produce. This paper looks at the issue of "crack-cocaine" and mothers who give birth to children after using drugs during pregnancy. It attempts to lay out what is known, and it puts forth "best guesses" regarding helping children born…
Descriptors: Child Health, Crack, Drug Addiction, Drug Education
Ounce of Prevention Fund. – 1992
This booklet describes two prevention programs, Peer Power, a program for girls, and Awareness and Development for Adolescent Males (ADAM), a program for boys. It is noted that these programs, designed to reach students before high school age, help young adolescents stay in school, delay sexual activity and pregnancy, and develop realistic career…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Adolescents, Career Exploration, Contraception
