Teen Pregnancy and Parenting : Social and Ethical Issues.
The terms 'teen pregnancy' and 'teenage parenting' are rife with moral accusations and factual ambiguities. Arising from a conference at Ryerson Polytechnical University, these nine original essays delimit and clarify the multifarious facts that affect how Canadian society both r...
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University of Toronto Press
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / James Wong and David Checkland
- Teen parenting and Canadians' values / Suzanne Peters
- What do we know about unmarried mothers? / Susan Clark
- Day-to-day ethical issues in the care of young parents and their children / Miriam Kaufman
- 'On my own': a new discourse of dependence and independence from teen mothers / Linda Davies, Margaret McKinnon, and Prue Rains
- A critical feminist perspective on teen pregnancy and parenthood / Deirdre M. Kelly
- Teenage pregnancy : social construction? / Ian Hacking
- How should we live? Some reflections on procreation / Kathryn Pyne Addelson
- The construction of teen parenting and the decline of adoption / Lea Caragata
- Changing high-risk policies and programs to reduce high-risk sexual behaviours / Maureen Jessop Orton
- A round-table discussion of teen parenting as a social and ethical issue
- On choice, responsibility, and entitlement
- David Checkland and James Wong.