Breaking the Adolescent Parent Cycle: Valuing Fatherhood and Motherhood

This book addresses the discrepancy between efforts to prevent adolescent pregnancy and support of adolescent parenthood, which is arguably America's greatest unrecognized public health crisis. It proposes a feasible legal procedure as the basis for ensuring that adolescents' babies have competent parents with the resources and environments they need.

• | Author: Jack C. Westman
• | Publisher: University Press of America
• | Publication Date: Jul 16, 2009
• | Number of Pages: 570 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0761845364
• | ISBN-13: 9780761845362