teenage pregnancy

Discusses what factors can put teenagers at risk for suicide, teen pregnancy, gang violence, drugs, and other dangers.

Allie, failing school and fearing she is pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, decides there is no way she can face her always fighting parents and decides to run away, but she gets a different perspective on her life and future when a tornado hits, destroying her home and injuring her mother.

Philip Chase moves back home with his mother who is still grieving over the death of Ronnie, her younger son five years previous, but life makes an unusual turn when Ronnie's high school girlfriend shows up nine months pregnant with Ronnie's child.

Lucy, a fourteen-year-old high school freshman, experiences the happiness and confusion of dating a popular older boy, changing relationships with life-long friends, and sharing a bedroom with her older brother's pregnant girlfriend.

A collection of essays that explore the issue of teenage pregnancy, discussing the extent of the problem, factors that contribute to teenage pregnancy, and what measures would most effectively balance the needs of teen mothers, their children, and society.

Presents facts about birth control and pregnancy. Includes information on being a teen parent, placing a child for adoption, and having an abortion.

Presents various articles which discuss opposing viewpoints about the factors that influence teen sex, society's concern about and response to teen sex, and what sex education should be provided to teens and by whom.

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

Discusses the reproductive system and the various methods of birth control and how they work.