unmarried mothers

Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.

Eighteen-year-old Chris struggles to deal with two shocks that have changed his life, his meeting the mother who left him and his father when he was ten and his discovery that he has gotten his girlfriend pregnant.

A seventeen-year-old girl searches for a way to face the future with her dependent, eccentric mother and her own unborn baby.

Discusses the increased frequency, causes, problems, and repercussions of teenage pregnancy and parenthood.

Presents interviews with fifteen young women who have faced unwanted pregnancies and four professionals who work with unplanned parenthood among teen-agers.

Gustine, a fifteen-year-old prostitute in nineteenth-century England, agrees to procure the dead bodies of victims of the bubonic plague for surgeon Henry Chiver to use in his anatomy school in exchange for his care of her baby boy, who was born with a remarkable anatomical defect, but her loyalty to the doctor is challenged by his growing greed and his obsession with the child.

When Neema Powell's mother's boyfriend throws her out and her mother sides with him, Neema takes shelter with her boyfriend, Nate, for only two days before moving in with her Aunt Amina, but those two days will be enough to change her life forever.

Halley's junior year of high school includes the death of her best friend Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own first serious relationship.