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Direct linkHunt, Geoffrey; Joe-Laidler, Karen; MacKenzie, Kathleen – Youth & Society, 2005
A growing body of research challenges the popular characterization that young mothers are bad mothers. This article focuses on a group of girls and young women who were pregnant or mothers and who were engaged in a risky lifestyle through their heavy involvement in gangs, partying, and drinking. The authors examine the impact of the process of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Pregnancy, Mothers, Juvenile Gangs
