Discusses problems in adolescent marriages: (1) economic struggles; (2) social interaction outside the marriage; and (3) child conception and rearing. Suggests that major changes must be made in social values and national policy regarding parenthood. (SDH)

In Iowa in the 1980s, dreams of prosperity were suddenly replaced by economic nightmares as plummeting land values generated economic decline and dislocation in rural communities and individual lives. This book examines the experience of over 400 Iowa families who lived through the Great Farm Crisis and now face an uncertain future. Interviewed as…