teenage pregnancy

Provides information on teenage pregnancy, including health risks and procedures, the fundamentals of childbirth, alternatives to raising the baby, and coping with friends and family members.

Provides basic consumer information for teens about maintaining health during pregnancy, preparing for childbirth, and caring for a newborn. Includes index and resource information.

Presents an objective overview of issues related to sex and pregnancy for teenagers, providing primary source materials, facts, and statistics, and discussing whether teenage sex and pregnancy is a serious problem, the consequences of teenage sex and pregnancy, sex education, and related topics.

Debates issues concerning teen pregnancy such as abortions without parental permission and adoption, and includes guidelines for writing essays on the topic.

Presents a collection of personal narratives regarding teenage pregnancy.

Describes the female body's changes during puberty and provides information and guidance for young girls on sexuality, intercourse, the decision to become sexually active, contraception, sexually transmitted diseases, and related issues such as harassment and rape.

Offers advice to teenage girls who find themselves unmarried and pregnant, identifying some of the emotions they may feel upon learning of their pregnancy, exploring options for continuing or terminating the pregnancy, and discussing support systems, how to tell others, the experience of pregnancy, and birth control.

Examines the decision-making experiences of teens considering abortion, discussing their rights to an abortion, the Supreme Court's efforts to protect teens' rights to choose, and state laws imposing parental involvement in the decision.

Contains twenty-six articles that provide opposing viewpoints on issues related to teen pregnancy and parenting, addressing questions about whether teen pregnancy is a serious problem, what factors contribute to teen pregnancy, the effectiveness of sex education programs, alternatives to teen parenting, and the social view of teen parenting.

Presents information for young people on twenty-one alphabetized topics related to sex, including sex in the media, sex and the law, sexual arousal, sexually transmitted diseases, contraceptives, and the cost of pregnancy and childbirth, and includes statistics, teenagers' personal stories, and question-and-answer sections.