A residence program for unwed mothers and their infants is described.

Discusses the changing role of Service agencies in helping unmarried pregnant women, unwed mothers, and their children. (DP)

This paper is based on a presentation at the CWLA Eastern Regional Conference at Baltimore in 1969 (MG)

Describes a program developed by the Children's Aid Society of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, called Intergenerational Support System (ISS), in which senior volunteers serve as support persons for problem families. (SAK)

A mid-1970s study of the characteristics of pregnant unmarried mothers who keep their children and those who surrender them for adoption discloses some differences from the characteristics of such mothers in the late 1960s and early 1970s. (CM)

Factors that might allow prediction of the unwed mother's decision to keep her child or to surrender it for adoption are examined in this study of 137 white and black clients of a social agency. (NH)

Meetings between black unwed expectant schoolgirls and black and white adoptive parents and social workers are discussed. (NH)

Describes the services of a community-based center providing social services to adolescent parents who cannot yet function independently and who had not previously been served. Emphasis is placed on continuity of services and on cooperation with existing educational, medical, and social institutions. (Author/DB)

Discusses problems encountered by Soviet society in socializing children during a period of rapid industrialization, and the methods and programs developed to deal with these problems. (CS)

Describes the Parent/Child Program at the Booth Memorial Home in Oakland, California, which trains young mothers in parenting skills, gives them a chance to complete their education or vocational preparation, and provides care and developmental opportunity for the infants. (Author/SDH)

This article presents a program to meet educational and other needs of pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers. The program includes a regular curriculum, a health unit, social services, and a child/day care unit. (Author/DB)

An experimental program combining pregnant adolescents and nonpregnant girls in group therapy indicated advantages in this approach over group therapy involving only pregnant girls. (Author)

Describes future social problems which will develop as the general birth rate decreases and illegitimate births subsequently comprise a much greater percentage of total births. (SDH)

This paper addresses the special problems of teenage parents and their children, also problems peculiar to casework with this kind of client, and offers helpful approaches for social workers working with teenage parents. (GO)

This article discusses trends in the occurrence of out-of-wedlock births and factors which contribute to or are associated with illegitimate pregnancies. Specifically discussed are the rates of increase of such births, particularly among unmarried teenage mothers, and the ethnic, social, and psychological characteristics of unwed mothers. It is…