When Children Become Parents: Welfare State Responses to by Anne Daguerre, Corinne Nativel

By Anne Daguerre, Corinne Nativel

Teenage parenthood is regarded as an important drawback in western industrialised international locations. it's been chanced on to extend the possibility of poverty and to enhance inequalities. This publication explores, for the 1st time, the hyperlinks among welfare kingdom provision and teen reproductive behaviour throughout more than a few international locations with differing welfare regimes.Drawing on either welfare country and feminist literature, in addition to on new empirical proof, the publication compares public coverage responses to teenage parenthood in every one 'family' of welfare regime: Nordic, Liberal and Continental (Western European); analyses different socio-political contexts during which teenage being pregnant is built as a social challenge and identifies most sensible perform in Europe and the USA.Countries integrated within the research are the united kingdom, united states, New Zealand, France, Italy, Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Canadian province of Quebec and Russia. The members are all across the world known specialists within the fields of welfare and/or gender studies."When childrens develop into mom and dad" is necessary interpreting for a large viewers of scholars, coverage makers, practitioners and teachers in sociology, social coverage, social geography, schooling, psychology, and adolescence and gender studies.

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And while 7% of young women with some college education give birth before the age of 20 in the US, a stunning 66% of those with less than a high school education do so (Singh et al, 2001). Knowing that adolescent mothers in the US are comparatively disadvantaged helps us understand, at least in part, why the birth rate among teenagers is higher in the US than it is in all other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Relative to other developed countries, the number of young people growing up in disadvantaged conditions is widespread in the US ( Jones et al, 1985).

Early parenthood can be viewed as some girls’ attempts to gain meaningful familial relationships – or some meaning at all in their otherwise bleak lives. But this individual striving can also be seen in a wider cultural context, one in which all Americans are expected to achieve some level of both financial and emotional independence from their families and from the state. ‘DeVonya Smalls was trying to achieve the American Dream,’ writes Kaplan about a teenage mother whose motivations seemed typical of the other mothers she studied.

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