Download e-book for kindle: Teenage Parenthood: What’s the Problem? by Simon Duncan,Rosalind Edwards,Claire Alexander

“Teenage parenting might be extra of a chance than a catastrophe.”
Policy makers and media declare that teenage parenthood ruins younger people’s lives and people in their young ones, in addition to threatening wider social and ethical breakdown. but study more and more exhibits that parenthood isn't inevitably a catastrophe for younger ladies and younger males, and certainly can occasionally increase their lives. Why is that changing into a parent could make feel for and be valued via a few teenagers? And why is that coverage makers forget about the examine proof that teenage parenthood isn't really an inevitable catastrophe?
Teenage Parenting – What’s the matter? provides fresh quantitative and qualitative examine on teenage motherhood and fatherhood, in an obtainable demeanour. members glance at:
•the dating among age, pre-existing drawback and social results for moms and their children
•the gulf among govt coverage assumptions and the understandings of stripling mom and dad and their families
•the variable ways that younger moms’ and fathers’ ethnic id articulates with gender, type and age
•how younger mom and dad see themselves as ‘just one other dad or mum’ by way of parenting, schooling and employment
•commonalities in resilience and relatives aid for teenage mom and dad among and over generations,
•links among studies of parenting and self-identity, and the way those may be laid low with help from friends and family, and through formal provider delivery.
These matters are put within the context of a wide-ranging overview of analysis proof on teenage parenting, and a attention of why executive coverage turns out to disregard this evidence.
This publication will entice teachers, policymakers and execs with an curiosity in new and not easy views on regulations round teenage parenthood and on younger father and mother’ experiences.