pregnancy

Discusses the social, physical, and economic problems of teenage pregnancy and parenthood and describes various methods of birth control.

Provides information and advice on how to cope as a teenage mother before and after the baby is born.

Failing to get sympathy from her strict fundamentalist father when a rape leaves her pregnant, Lucy flees her home on Maryland's Eastern Shore and attempts to find self-reliance in nearby Ocean City.

Eighteen-year-old Chris struggles to deal with two shocks that have changed his life, his meeting the mother who left him and his father when he was ten and his discovery that he has gotten his girlfriend pregnant.

High school baseball pitcher Coley Burke, trying to live up to the reputation of his star athlete brother who recently died, succumbs to the pressure imposed by his father and himself and runs off to Florida with his troubled young girlfriend, Bree.

Kristina Georgia Snow goes from being a gifted high school senior to the exact opposite after the handsome Adam introduces her to drugs.

Describes the development of a human baby from conception to birth, and briefly discusses genetic and environmental disorders.

A handbook with over 800 photographs for new parents and parents-to-be. Covers prenatal exercises, labor, nutrition, childhood illnesses, first aid, and immunization timetables.