ISBN: 0688069576
Godina izdanja: 1989
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Leon Dash - When Children Want Children: The Urban Crisis of Teenage Childbearing
William Morrow & Co., 1989
270 str.
tvrdi povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Posveta i potpis autora / Signed copy

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Washington Post reporter, Leon Dash spent a year living in one of the poorest ghettos in Washington, D.C., and a total of seventeen months conducting interviews examining the causes and effects of the ever-lowering age of teenage parents among poor black youths. Dash had expected to find inadequate sex education and lack of birth control to be the root cause of the growing trend toward early motherhood, but his conversations with the mothers themselves revealed the truth to be more complex. A riveting account of the human stories behind the statistics, `When Children Want Children` allows readers to hear the voices of young adults struggling with poverty and parenthood and gets to the heart of teenage parents` cultural values and motivations.

When `Washington Post` reporter Leon Dash set out to investigate the ever-lowering age of teenage parents, he expected to find ignorance about birth control and reproduction at the heart of the problem. But what he discovered shocked him: these pregnancies were almost always intentional. For teenagers who face an otherwise dreary and empty future, the birth of a baby often symbolizes a tangible achievement. `When Children Want Children` exposes bitter truths about sex education, school counseling, and health clinics. It is an eloquent and painful story of our continuing failure to deal with an ongoing urban crisis.