When Boys Become Parents: Adolescent Fatherhood in America

by Mark S. Kiselica

Book Overview

After school specials about teenage pregnancy abound. Whether in television or in society, the focus tends toward young girls coping with all of the emotional and physical burdens of pregnancy but rarely is the perspective of the teenage fathers portrayed. In this informative book, Mark S. Kiselica draws on his many years of counseling teenage fathers to offer a compassionate look at the difficult life circumstances and the complicated hardships these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813543584
• ISBN13: 9780813543581
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"