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Download full textLYONS, DOROTHY J. – 1967
AN INTERAGENCY PROGRAM FOR UNWED PREGNANT TEENAGERS IN THE LOS ANGELES PUBLIC SCHOOLS, FUNDED IN 1965 UNDER TITLE I OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT, OFFERS EDUCATIONAL, MEDICAL, SOCIAL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES. IN ADDITION TO USING REGULAR PERSONNEL, THE PROGRAM ENLISTS THE COORDINATED EFFORTS OF THE ADOPTION BUREAU, THE BUREAU OF…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Organizations, Counseling Instructional Programs, Medical Services
Salvation Army. New York, NY. – 1976
This guide is one of a series of Education for Parenthood manuals developed by the Salvation Army for use in programs to prepare teenagers for parenthood or for child care careers. This volume outlines four courses for troubled girls and young adult women who receive residential care or who may be served through community outreach. The program was…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Care, Consumer Education, Curriculum Guides
Peer reviewedHofferth, Sandra L. – Educational Leadership, 1987
Outlines the changes in the family structure in our society and the new stresses this puts on the children and the schools who are now faced with educating students with many potential problems. The report covers marriage, divorce, women's employment, sex, unmarried pregnancy, childbearing, changing family size, and poverty. Includes references…
Descriptors: Divorce, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Employed Women
Peer reviewedStoiber, Karen Callan; Houghton, Tambrala G. – School Psychology Quarterly, 1994
Examined 39 mother-infant dyads to see whether qualitative differences in adolescent mothers are associated with differences in child functioning. Multiple measures of parental characteristics indicated that parenting expectations had a unique and differential power in explaining both objective child observation ratings and the mothers' Parenting…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Behavior, Child Development
Peer reviewedMcBride Murry, Velma – Youth and Society, 1992
Studies previously identified factors associated with adolescent pregnancy among a nationally representative sample of unmarried African-American females (n=4,663) born between 1938 and 1962. Data from the 1982 National Survey of Family Growth suggest substantial changes in sexual behavior over the years. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Black Youth, Early Parenthood
Peer reviewedPlotnick, Robert D. – American Sociological Review, 1992
Studies the influence of self-esteem, locus of control, attitudes toward women's family roles, attitudes toward school, educational aspirations, and religiosity on the probability of teenage premarital pregnancy and its resolution. Results for 1,142 white adolescent girls show that self-esteem and attitudes toward schooling and family roles were…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Educational Attitudes, Family Role
Victor, Susan M. – School of Education Review, 1992
Reviews literature on issues of sexuality for adolescent girls, interweaving quotes from adolescent mothers. Information comes from the author's work educating teenage parents. The article focuses on the relationship of social pressures to sexuality, femininity, the body, silence and rebellion, adolescent motherhood, and sexual abuse. (SM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Early Parenthood, Females, Incest
Peer reviewedTaylor, Jerome E.; Chesler, Betty E. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1993
Examines the impact of male intimates, external confidants, and approval of the male friend by an external confidant in relation to the quality of parenting among 80 low-income African-American single mothers. Results suggest that male companionship and confidant support cut the risk of maladaptive parenting. (GLR)
Descriptors: Black Family, Black Mothers, Early Parenthood, Family Life
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Vocational Instructional Materials Lab. – 1996
GRADS (Graduation, Reality, and Dual-Role Skills) is an in-school instructional and intervention program for pregnant teens and young parents. Its objectives are to help these students remain in school through graduation, have healthy pregnancies and healthy babies, learn practical parenting and child-development skills, gain an orientation to…
Descriptors: Child Development, Competence, Competency Based Education, Dropout Prevention
West Virginia Task Force on Children, Youth and Families, Charleston. – 1994
This report provides information on 12 indicators of child and adolescent health, education, and economic status in West Virginia at the state and county level. It includes a state profile, a minority profile, and 55 county profiles. Each of the indicators is discussed on a state-wide basis. The bulk of the report consists of one-page county…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Health, Child Welfare, Counties
Norfolk Public Schools, VA. – 1989
Teenage pregnancy is a nationwide problem that continues to increase in epidemic proportions. GRADS (Graduation, Reality, and Dual-Role Skills) offers a home economics program as well as employability training to adolescent mothers in Norfolk (Virginia) Public Schools. Additional support is given as the pregnant teens and teen mothers strive to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Competency Based Education, Employed Parents, Employment Potential
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
Burt, Martha R.; And Others – 1984
This study evaluates how grantees of the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs (OAPP) implemented their teen pregnancy and parenting programs and how program participation affected the lives of clients. Chapter I outlines the structure and history of the evaluation project. Chapter II highlights the major client outcomes of OAPP-funded projects…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Cost Effectiveness, Early Parenthood
Hollinshead, Merrill T. – 1975
This is an evaluation report of a New York City school district educational project funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The program was designed to provide bilingual instruction to pregnant school-age girls who were two or more years below grade level in reading and mathematics. It was also designed for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, English (Second Language)
Children's Foundation, Washington, DC. – 1975
This assessment of food service needs in children's residential institutions is based on data gathered from visits to more than 350 children's institutions in 20 states and the District of Columbia and from nearly 1,200 responses to a questionnaire sent to every residential institution in every state. Findings indicate that children in orphanges,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Budgeting, Child Care, Children
