teenage pregnancy

Offers advice and guidance to pregnant teenagers, explaining the options of adoption, parenting, and abortion, with interviews in which teens share their experiences, and discussion of the role of the father, pregnancy prevention, and a list of resources.

Discusses nutritional, medical, and social aspects of teenage pregnancy and teenage parenthood.

Presents the voices of pregnant teens as they talk about their needs, interests, decisions, and choices around motherhood, adoption, and abortion.

Thirty-six teenage mothers from Minnesota's South Vista Education Center describe their experiences as teenage mothers and present messages for their children to read when they grow up.

A collection of essays that provides varying perspectives on teenagers at risk, debating what factors put a teen at risk, if substance abuse and adverse consequences of teenage sex and pregnancy can be reduced, and how society can deal with adolescent crime and violence.

A discussion of teen pregnancy, providing information about puberty, sex, and safety, looking at the signs of pregnancy, identifying options for pregnant teens and encouraging them to seek help from a trusted adult, and including coping strategies.

Asia Smith's life is turned upside down when her indulgent father dies unexpectedly, leaving Asia in the care of her Aunt Joy and attending a new school, where she joins the wrong crowd and soon winds up pregnant and forced to grow up too fast.

High school principal Susan Tate's life takes a sudden detour when her seventeen-year-old daughter finds out she is pregnant and her two best friends announce they are too, leading the people of their Maine coastal village to accuse Susan of being responsible for the actions of the teenagers and making Susan fear the life she has built for her family will be lost.

In 1963, pregnant seventeen-year-old Adie Jenkins is intrigued by the diary of a young slave girl who had three illegitimate children with her master; and after she gives birth, Adie starts to wonder if her midwife is the daughter of the woman who wrote the journal.

Philadelphia defense attorney Ellie Hathaway, unsatisfied with the course of her career and personal life, leaves her job for an open-ended stay at her great-aunt's home in Paradise, Pennsylvania, arriving just in time to become embroiled in the case of a young, unmarried Amish woman accused of killing her newborn baby.