Kids Having Kids - Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy

List of contents

1. The Study, the Context, and the Findings in Brief, Rebecca A. Maynard 2. Trends over Time in Teenage Pregnancy and Childbearing: The Critical Changes, Susan Williams McElroy and Kristen Anderson Moore 3. The Impacts of Teenage Childbearing on the Mothers and the Consequences of those Impacts for Government, V. Joseph Hotz, Susan Williams McElroy, and Seth G. Sanders 4. Costs and Consequences for the Fathers, Michael J. Brien and Robert J. Willis 5. Effects on the Children Born to Adolescent Mothers, Kristen Anderson Moore, Donna Ruane Morrison, and Angela Dungee Greene 6. Teen Children’s Health and Health Care Use, Barbara Wolfe and Maria Perozek 7. Abuse and Neglect of the Children, Robert M. George and Bong Joo Lee 8. Incarceration-Related Costs of Early Childbearing, Jeffrey Grogger 9. Children of Early Childbearers as Young Adults, Robert H. Haveman, Barbara Wolfe, and Elaine Peterson 10. The Costs of Adolescent Childbearing, Rebecca A. Maynard.

About the author

Rebecca A. Maynard

Summary

Published in 1997, this work is a comprehensive examination of the extent to which undesirable outcomes are attributable to teen pregnancy itself rather than to the wider environment in which most of the pregnancies and the subsequent child-rearing take place.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca A. Maynard
• Assisted by: Rebecca A. Maynard (Editor), Maynard Rebecca A. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781138321335
• ISBN: 978-1-138-32133-5
• No. of pages: 361
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Sociology: family & relationships, Sociology: family and relationships