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In this ground-breaking book, Constance Williams reveals why, contrary to the adverse outcomes previously attributed to their lot, many black teenage mothers consider their lives enriched by childbearing. Here is a poignant exploration of themeaning of pregnancy and motherhood to young women who, although impoverished, express hope as freely tell their stories and reveal new truths about their attitudes. Williams discoverss that it is more often socialization - not ignorance - that leads black teens into motherhood at such a young age. She also reveals why early childbearing for these teens may well be an adaptive and even reasonable response to their social and cultural realities.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Black Teenage Mothers
• Subtitle: Child Rearing from Their Perpective
• Author: Constance Willard Williams
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 184
• EAN: 9780669243130
• ISBN: 0669243132
• ID: 04633403
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Weight: 449 g
• Dimensions: 245 × 160 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. January 1991

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