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Teenage Pregnancy - The Making and Unmaking of a Problem (Hardcover)
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Teenage Pregnancy - The Making and Unmaking of a Problem (Hardcover)
Series: Health & Society S.
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In the last decades of the 20th century, successive British
Governments have regarded adolescent pregnancy and childbearing as
a significant public health and social problem. Youthful pregnancy
was once tackled by attacking young, single mothers but New Labour,
through its Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, linked early pregnancy to
social exclusion rather than personal morality and aimed, instead,
to reduce teenage pregnancy and increase young mothers'
participation in education and employment. However, the
problematisation of early pregnancy has been contested, and it has
been suggested that teenage mothers have been made scapegoats for
wider, often unsettling, social and demographic changes.The
re-evaluation of early pregnancy as problematic means that, in some
respects, teenage pregnancy has been 'made' and 'unmade' as a
problem. Focusing on the period from the late-1990's to the
present, "Teenage Pregnancy" examines who is likely to have a baby
as a teenager, the consequences of early motherhood and how teenage
pregnancy is dealt with in the media. The author argues that
society's negative attitude to young mothers is likely to
marginalise an already excluded group and that efforts should be
focused primarily on supporting young mothers and their children.
This comprehensive examination of teenage pregnancy focuses on the
situation in the UK, but will be useful for readers in other
developed world countries. It will be of interest to students in
sociology, social policy, health studies and public health, and
also to policymakers and young people's interest groups.
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