teenage pregnancy

Presents interviews with teenage mothers and provides information about adoption, parenting, abortion, and foster care.

Explains responsible sexual behavior, the ramifications of teenage pregnancy, ways to avoid it, and methods for coping with it, including various options.

Covers a wide variety of topics related to teen pregnancy, including birth control, the question of abstinence versus sexual activity, peer pressure, precautions against disease, abusive partners, and life with a baby.

Describes what parents, school, and communities can do to help teenagers face the dangers so common in today's society.

Teenage fathers highlight the challenges of being a teen parent, discussing responsibility, economic hardship, and emotional issues involved in parenting at a young age.

Before: Reena Montero has loved Sawyer LeGrande for as long as she can remember. But he's never noticed that Reena even exists...until one day, impossibly, he does. Reena and Sawyer fall in messy, complicated love. Then Sawyer disappears without a word, leaving a devastated--and pregnant--Reena behind. After: Almost three years have passed, and there's a new love in Reena's life: her daughter. Reena's gotten used to life without Sawyer, but just as suddenly as he disappeared, he turns up again. Reena wants nothing to do with him, though she'd be lying if she said his being back wasn't stirring something in her. After everything that's happened, can Reena really let herself love Sawyer LeGrande again?.

This book discusses the emotions, stresses, and adjustments connected with an unplanned teenage pregnancy.