This House of Representatives Bill specifies some of the conditions and needs that gave rise to legislation for school-age mothers: the increasing incidence of adolescent pregnancies; the disruption caused to families and educations of such pregnancies; the high risk status of infants born under such circumstances; and the lack of adequate helping…

As more adolescent unmarried mothers decide to keep their babies, social service agencies need to reevaluate their programs to meet changing needs. This study examines the living situations, educational and employment status, and interpersonal relationships of 30 adolescent unmarried mothers to determine the services they themselves thought they…

Examines trends in black and white fertility since 1920, differences in family planning between the groups, and the relationship of family planning to black/white fertility differences. Finds that unplanned out of wedlock births are the most important factor affecting differences in the fertility rates between blacks and whites. (Author/GC)

There is a high correlation between adolescent women's educational skills, goals, and family income and the likelihood of pregnancy. Schools have a statutory duty to provide health instruction; this may include pregnancy-prevention programs. Includes discussion of Acquired Immune Defficiency Syndrom (AIDS) and school responsibility for educational…

Describes a Maryland program for teenage mothers who want to finish school. The three goals of the program are to (1) help the mother get her diploma, (2) provide entry-level vocational skills, and (3) provide child care. (CH)

Examines the literature regarding the increase in teenage parenthood and its consequences for the teenagers, their education, and society. Concludes that teenage mothers have high rates of welfare dependence, and suggests that moves toward prevention or job training will not succeed until the economic situation of women is improved. (LLL)

The author relates the experience of a high school with a pregnancy testing program. The most positive aspects of the program accrue from the fact that it permits followup by the nurse and school personnel of those girls continuing their pregnancies, and the reassurance that all possible alternatives to pregnancy and motherhood were explored…

Describes the Berkeley High School's parent-child education center which provides day care services and child care courses for teenage parents in conjunction with its regular high school classes. (ST)

Describes an organization which provides services and education for single mothers in Australia. (ST)

This report describes the study, its findings relative to recidivism and school withdrawal, the implications of the findings for planning preventive intervention services, and the implications of the findings for further research. (Author)

Harold I. Lief, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania and Ernest van den Haag, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Social Philosophies, New York University debate the question of the appropriateness of sex education in the schools. (BY)

The author discusses the problem faced by school age pregnant girls and briefly describes the growing movement to coordinate community services into a comprehensive program for these girls. (BY)

Social workers, Cooperating with doctors, nurses, hospital social workers and educators in other helping systems, conducted a demonstration project described here, aimed at preventing illegitimate teenage pregnancy. (Author)

Reports on a group program in which a public health nurse and two social workers have been working together to help unmarried mothers prepare for delivery and plan for the care of their babies. (Author/AJ)

Describes two recent court decisions: (1) A school board policy prohibiting unwed mothers admission to public school was changed; (2) a Federal court order requiring the California State Board of Education to retest and reevaluate in Spanish some 22,000 Mexican Americans previously classified as mentally retarded was obtained. (MF)