Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting

<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 3½ 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. <br><br> 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>