Teen Pregnancy and Parenting

<p>Whether glamorised or stigmatised teenage parenthood is all too often used to stand for a host of social problems and empirical research results ignored. Identifying core controversies surrounding teen pregnancy and parenting this book resolves misperceptions using findings from large-scale longitudinal and qualitative research studies from the US and other Western countries. </p> <p>Summarising the evidence and integrating it with a systems perspective the authors explore ten prevalent myths about teenage parents including: </p> <ul> <ul> <p></p></ul> <li>Teen pregnancy is associated with other behavior problems. </li> <ul> <p></p> <p></p></ul> <li>Children of teen parents will experience cognitive delay adjustment problems and will themselves become teen parents. </li> <ul> <p></p> <p></p></ul> <li>Better outcomes are achieved when teen mothers live with their own mothers.</li> <ul> <p></p> <p></p></ul> <li>Teen pregnancy costs tax payers lots of money. </li> <ul> <p></p> <p></p></ul> <li>Abstinence education is the best way to prevent teen pregnancy. </li> <ul> <p></p></ul></ul><i> <p>Teen Pregnancy and Parenting</i> ends by highlighting the prevention and intervention implications for families practitioners and policymakers. It will be of interest to academics and advanced students from a range of disciplines and professions including psychology public policy nursing social work and sociology.</p>