Breaking the Adolescent Parent Cycle: Valuing Fatherhood and Motherhood

by Jack C. Westman

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761845364
• ISBN13: 9780761845362
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 570 Pages
• Weight: 2.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.9" x 9.9"