Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction and Background; Trends in Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing; The UCSD Teen OB Follow-Up Study; Overview of Chapters; 2 Prenatal Care and Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes; Method; Results; Summary; 3 Short- Interval Repeat Pregnancy; Method; Results; Discussion; 4 Qualities of Adolescent Mothers' Parenting; Qualities of Adolescent Mothers' Parenting; Method; Results; Discussion; 5 The Role of Grandmothers in Adolescent Mothers' Parenting and Children's Outcomes; Method; Results
Discussion6 The Partners of Adolescent Mothers; Review of the Literature on the Partners of Teen Mothers; Method; Results; Discussion; 7 Summary and Conclusions; Summary of Topic Areas; Implications for the Future; Conclusions; References; Author Index; Subject Index
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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 31D 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. The purpose of this book was to offer researchers, practition
