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Hume, Joyce – Canadian Children, 2002
Reviews the literature on mentoring qualities and functions necessary during the mentor/mentee relationship with teen mothers and provides considerations for ongoing development of mentoring programs for this at-risk group. Attempts to establish the importance of understanding how mentors can facilitate a positive mother-child bond that leads to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Births to Single Women, Early Parenthood, Foreign Countries
Hepworth, H. Philip – 1977
This speech presents an overview of issues and trends in the provision of foster care and adoption services in Canada. The number of children "in care" in Canada (in foster homes, institutions, or adoptive homes) appears to have peaked around 1969 and declined thereafter. Information on contraceptives and the availaibility of abortions…
Descriptors: Adoption, Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Divorce
MacDonnell, Susan – 1982
This study compared 346 unmarried primiparous women who kept their children and 326 married primiparous women, with respect to birth control knowledge and use, socioeconomic circumstances over 18 months, health and development of the children, and quality of child care. The preparation and planning that led to the decision to keep the…
Descriptors: Adoption, Child Development, Child Rearing, Comparative Analysis