teenage pregnancy

Explores both how to prevent teen pregnancy and how to thrive as a teen parent, including how to make health decisions, the importance of education, and more.

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.

Presents the real-life diary of a teenage girl who became pregnant with twins half way through her junior year of high school in which she shares her thoughts about her difficult pregnancy, family and relationship issues, and the future.

Fifteen-year-old Shivana Montgomery, raised by a physically and verbally abusive single mother on the south side of Chicago, assumes her life will follow the same course as the other women she sees around her, but a visit from her beautiful and free-spirited Aunt Jewel, and a budding relationship with Rasul, lead her to hope for more, even after she accidently becomes pregnant.

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

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.

Gaby Rodriguez, whose mother and older sister both became pregnant as teenagers, explains what she learned from faking a pregnancy as a high school senior in order to find out how people would treat her.

Discusses the emotions, stresses, and adjustments connected with an unplanned teenage pregnancy.

Serafina an illegal migrant worker living in California when the police catch her is sent back to Mexico--without her 3 year old daughter. Twelve years later with a pair of silver barretts her only clue to her daughter, Serafina begins a harrowing journey back across the border to find her daughter.

Seventeen-year-old Sara has a drunken hookup at a party and gets pregnant. As a result, her mother takes Sara out of school and they move in with Sara's domineering grandmother and enrolls her at a new school. Then, not only is she the new girl, but she's going to be the the new pregnant girl once she starts showing, and Sara feels lonely. Then she meets the funny, flirtatious Leaf Leon, and doesn't know how to tell him she's pregnant with a stranger's kid.