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Title Inter-professional approaches to young fathers / edited by Jane Reeves.

Publication Info. Keswick [England] : M & K Update, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 240 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents Contextualising the evidence : young fathers, family and professional support / Jane Reeves and Frances Rehal -- The legislative and policy context of young fathers and their children / Janet Webb -- 'I've got to release it' : sexual health and young men / Ros Delaney -- A father is born : the role of the midwife in involving young fathers in the birth and early parenting of their children / Liz Gale -- Safeguarding young fathers and their children / Janet Webb -- The role of fathers in their children's lives / Rosa Panades-Blas -- Recklessness, rescue and responsibility / Jane Reeves.
Summary With one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, young fatherhood, as a site of economic and personal adversity, has become a focus of concern in Britain during the late 1990's. However, despite this policy interest there is surprisingly little British empirical evidence to review. One of the aims of the book is to draw together contemporary research evidence, social theory and policy which may effect how practitioners, students and academics conceptualise and work with young fathers. Consequently, each chapter illustrates the points it makes using discrete evidence from that particul.
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Subject Teenage fathers.
Teenage fathers.
Teenage parents.
Teenage parents.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Reeves, Jane.
Other Form: Print version: 9781905539291
ISBN 9781907830297 (electronic book)
1907830294 (electronic book)
1905539290
9781905539291
9781905539291