Teen Mothers

Kathleen Mullan Harris reveals the relationship between black teenage mothers and the welfare system. Does welfare encourage them to maintain a life of dependency? How does education, marriage, and employment impact this relationship? How do these women escape dependency? Harris's account is based on Frank Furstenberg's Baltimore study, which began in the 1960s and has continued for more than 20 years. This study traces the paths of these mothers and provides commentary on the changes in the welfare system and the way society perceives welfare recipients. Not only are job prospects worse today but so are welfare benefits, and the abortion rate has risen drastically.

Summary

Women who grow up in poor families begin childbearing at a younger age than nonpoor women, attain less education, work less, earn less, are dependent on federal aid, have less support from a husband, have more children, and spend more time as single mothers. This book reveals the relationship between Black teenage mothers and the welfare system.

Product details

• Authors: Kathleen Harris, Kathleen Mullan Harris
• Assisted by: Frank F. Furstenberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.12.1996
• EAN: 9781566394994
• ISBN: 978-1-56639-499-4
• No. of pages: 195
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Women in the Political Economy; Women in the Political Economy
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA