Edition |
1st Illinois pbk. |
Description |
270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Note |
Originally published: New York : William Morrow, c1989. With new pref. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary |
"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 a 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: these pregnancies were almost always intentional.". |
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"A riveting account that tells 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 motivation."--BOOK JACKET. |
Subject |
African American teenage mothers -- Washington (D.C.) -- Case studies.
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African American teenage mothers. |
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Washington (D.C.) |
Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Subject |
Teenage pregnancy -- Washington (D.C.) -- Case studies.
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Teenage pregnancy. |
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African American teenagers -- Sexual behavior -- Washington (D.C.) -- Case studies.
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African American teenagers -- Sexual behavior. |
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African American teenagers. |
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Washington Highlands (Washington, D.C.)
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Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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ISBN |
0252071239 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780252071232 paperback alkaline paper |
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