teenage pregnancy

Uses a question and answer format to provide teens with an overview of teenage pregnancy, covering topics such as the options pregnant teens have, what they need to know about pregnancy, what to do if they decide not to keep or have the baby, what they need for a newborn, and other related topics.

"Provides basic consumer health information for teens on prenatal care, pregnancy complications, labor and delivery, postpartum care, caring for newborn infants, and the emotional and legal issues of teen parenting. Includes index and directory of teen pregnancy resources and low-income pregnant women"--Provided by publisher.

Through the use of a Q&A format and engaging case studies, this book provides an approachable introduction to the topic of teenage pregnancy.

High school senior Ashley grapples with an unintended pregnancy, and finds herself detained under Act 292 (Wisconsin's ?Unborn Children Protection Act?), and must find her own strength and resilience as she fights to protect her unborn child and secure her own freedom.

Abi Knight learns that her seventeen-year-old daughter, Olivia, has been discovered after falling off a bridge. Olivia is brain dead, but Abi also learns that Olivia is pregnant and is being kept on life support for the sake of the baby. Noticing bruises on Olivia?s wrist, Abi thinks that something sinister may have happened despite the police ruling the fall an accident. She begins to investigate while also dealing with complex layers of grief. Told in alternating perspectives from the last few months of Olivia's life and Abi's search for the truth.

"In the summer of 1972, three girls from very different backgrounds struggle to come to terms with being pregnant"--Provided by publisher.

"Ayesha is a world away from home when she meets the boy of her dreams. Like her, Suresh is from India but going to high school in Illinois. Once they get together, they are inseparable--until a twist of fate takes Suresh back to India right when Ayesha discovers she's pregnant. Suddenly she feels she's on her own, navigating the biggest decision she'll ever make. Seventeen years later, Ayesha's daughter Mira finds an old box with letters addressed to her from her birth mother. Although Mira loves the moms who adopted her, she's intrigued to discover something more about her history. In one letter, Ayesha writes that if Mira can forgive her for what she had to do, she should find a way to travel to India for her eighteenth birthday and meet her. Mira knows she'll always regret it if she doesn't go. But is she actually ready for what she will learn?"--Provided by publisher.

"An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes, disappointments, and longings that can bind or divide us from each other . . . As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier, that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody's mother, for her own ceremony-- a celebration that ultimately never took place"--Provided by publisher.

"This book explores unplanned pregnancies and the steps teens can take when in this situation. The title examines birth control options, the symptoms of pregnancy, and how the decision to parent, put a child up for adoption, or abort may affect a teen's life"--Amazon.

Bryan Park is a "good guy." He's smart, driven, and has a picture-perfect future ahead of him when he graduates. That is, until Bryan's longtime friend and now-girlfriend, Alyssa, tells him she's pregnant with his child. Bryan and Alyssa have countless decisions to make that will change their lives forever. When Alyssa decides to continue the pregnancy, Bryan stays by her side. Still facing the pressures of high school, Bryan now has to think of diapers, money, his first real relationship, and reimagining the future he built for himself.