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

by Rebecca A. Maynard and Saul D. Hoffman

Book Overview

Teen childbearing in the United States has been declining since 1991, yet we consistently have the highest teen birth rates in the industrialized world. In 1997, Kids Having Kids was the first comprehensive effort to identify the consequences of teen childbearing for the mothers, the fathers, the children, and our society. Rather than simply comparing teen mothers with their childless counterparts, the assembled researchers achieved a new methodological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877667454
• ISBN13: 9780877667452
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.