Teen Pregnancy and Parenting

by Lisa Frohnapfel-Krueger

Overview

Editor Lisa Krueger has assembled a number of essays that debate the topic of teen pregnancy and parenthood. Topics include whether parental communication helps reduce the incidence, whether abstinence education is helpful, the role of the media, and whether teenage parents encounter numerous challenges.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780737749243
Publisher:	Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Publication date:	12/09/2010
Series:	Current Controversies Series
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	15 - 17 Years

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Editorial Reviews

Review: Teen Pregnancy and Parenting "...These titles will be a great resource for current events, history, and speech classes and debate teams. Highly Recommended."—Library Media Connection, August-September 2004

From the Publisher

Gr 10 Up—Teen Sex is limited in range, has less depth in the essays than Teen Pregnancy, and is often confusing. Concurrent data is conflicting and raises issues and leaves gaps in the text. Some essays tend to provide support to both sides of an argument, thereby reinforcing the underlying precept that these issues are difficult to pin down with hard-and-fast statistics. Many of the essays in Teen Pregnancy include commentary on how parents might be better able to impact teen pregnancies, in many instances emphasizing their potential to effect change-whether their views are liberal or conservative. In both books, the material is statistic dense, with specific sources particularly lacking in Teen Sex, but both volumes could benefit from comprehensive footnotes. This lack of specificity ultimately leads to readers wondering if the numbers are somehow brought around to enhance a given author's argument. Having said that, the differing viewpoints on sex education and its impact on teen pregnancy in the second book are well presented for opening further discussion. An excellent couple of essays straddle the divide between the "teen pregnancy is evil" and the "let's-throw-condoms-at-them" camps, and more to the point, include teen fathers in the discussion. Teen Pregnancy is a solid additional purchase. The content is graphic, including discussion/reference to oral, anal, and group sex.—Meredith Toumayan, The Governor's Academy, Byfield, MA

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