Teen Pregnancy and Parenting : : Social and Ethical Issues /

Teen Pregnancy and Parenting : : Social and Ethical Issues / / ed. by David A. Checkland, James Wong.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Addelson, Kathryn Pyne,
Caragata, Lea,
Checkland, David,
Clark, Susan,
Davies, Linda,
Hacking, Ian,
Kaufman, Miriam,
Kelly, Deirdre M.,
Mckinnon, Margaret,
Orton, Maureen Jessop,
Peters, Suzanne,
Rains, Prue,
Wong, James,
HerausgeberIn:
Checkland, David A.,
Wong, James,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1999
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (190 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: JAMES WONG and DAVID CHECKLAND
  • 1. Teen Parenting and Canadians' Values
  • 2. What Do We Know about Unmarried Mothers?
  • 3. Day-to-Day Ethical Issues in the Care of Young Parents and Their Children
  • 4. 'On My Own': A New Discourse of Dependence and Independence from Teen Mothers
  • 5. A Critical Feminist Perspective on Teen Pregnancy and Parenthood
  • 6. Teenage Pregnancy: Social Construction?
  • 7. How Should We Live? Some Reflections on Procreation
  • 8. The Construction of Teen Parenting and the Decline of Adoption
  • 9. Changing High-Risk Policies and Programs to Reduce High-Risk Sexual Behaviours
  • 10. A Round-Table Discussion of Teen Parenting as a Social and Ethical Issue
  • 11. On Choice, Responsibility, and Entitlement

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