unmarried mothers

When fourteen-year-old Sharelle becomes pregnant by her future brother-in-law, her life is irrevocably changed by love and concern for her baby.

Discusses the reasons some poor single mothers have children before focusing on marriage, despite the economic and societal risks, based on discussions with 162 low-income women.

Presents practical and spiritual advice to teenage moms through the personal experiences of the author and other young mothers.

Seventeen-year-old Terry, single and pregnant, decides to keep a journal to help herself come to terms with an unhappy homelife and poor self-image as she tries to decide whether or not to keep her baby.

Thirteen-year-old Freedom who, along with her stepbrother, is being raised by an embittered alcoholic mother, longs to know who her father is and why his identity has always been a secret.

Seventeen years old and pregnant, Anne lives with other unwed mothers in a group home in rural Texas where she learns to be herself before giving her child up for adoption.

Twelve-year-old Feni has to adjust when the pregnant young daughter of an old friend of her mother's comes to stay with them.

Nineteen-year-old Miriam, imprisoned in Siberia after inadvertently involving herself with revolutionaries in 1911 Kiev, tells the story of her turbulent life in a Jewish village, writing journal entries to the daughter she gave up at birth.

An eleven-year-old girl describes her life and relationship with her mother who has never married.

A fifteen-year-old girl who is pregnant decides she wants to keep her baby, not realizing how much harder it will be than caring for her beloved Daisy Doll.