When children become parents : : Welfare state responses to teenage pregnancy /

When children become parents : : Welfare state responses to teenage pregnancy / / ed. by Anne Daguerre, Corinne Nativel.

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Teenage parenthood is recognised as a significant disadvantage in western industrialised nations. It has been found to increase the likelihood of poverty and to reinforce inequalities. This book explores, for the first time, the links between welfare state provision and teenage reproductive behaviou...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
MitwirkendeR:
Charbonneau, Johanne,
Daguerre, Anne,
Ivanova, Elena,
Knudsen, Lisbeth B.,
Luker, Kristin,
McLaughlin, Christine Carter,
Menz, Georg,
Nativel, Corinne,
Pernigotti, Elisabetta,
Portet1, Stéphane,
Ruspini, Elisabetta,
Valle, Ann-Karin,
HerausgeberIn:
Daguerre, Anne,
Nativel, Corinne,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on contributors
  • Introduction: the construction of teenage pregnancy as a social problem
  • Liberal welfare states
  • Young single mothers and ‘welfare reform’ in the US
  • Teenage pregnancy in New Zealand: changing social policy paradigms
  • Teenage pregnancy and parenthood in England
  • Continental and Scandinavian welfare states
  • Approaches to teenage motherhood in Québec, Canada
  • Teenage pregnancy and reproductive politics in France
  • Early motherhood in Italy: explaining the ‘invisibility’ of a social phenomenon
  • Teenage reproductive behaviour in Denmark and Norway: lessons from the Nordic welfare state
  • Transition states
  • Meeting the challenge of new teenage reproductive behaviour in Russia
  • Teenage pregnancy in Poland: between laissez-faire and religious backlash
  • Conclusion: welfare states and the politics of teenage pregnancy: lessons from cross-national comparisons
  • Statistical appendix: Teenage fertility in OECD countries
  • Index

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