Teenage Childbearing and Welfare Reform: Lessons from a Decade of Demonstration and Evaluation Research.

Maynard, Rebecca

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ERIC Number: EJ508810

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1995

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Teenage Childbearing and Welfare Reform: Lessons from a Decade of Demonstration and Evaluation Research.

Maynard, Rebecca

Children and Youth Services Review, v17 n1-2 p309-32 1995

Reviews important facts and findings from the research on the causes and consequences of teenage childbearing. Describes those parents on welfare and their life circumstances that facilitate or impede their success as young parents and ways of mitigating the adverse consequences of early childbearing for the young mothers and their children. (AA)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Rearing, Child Welfare, Disadvantaged Environment, Early Parenthood, Life Events, Low Income Groups, Mothers, One Parent Family, Poverty, Social Problems, Welfare Recipients, Welfare Reform

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Note: Special double issue: "Child Poverty, Public Practices, and Welfare Reform."