ISBN: 0520208587 EAN: 9780520208582
Publisher: University of California Press (View Publisher's Titles)
US SRP: $ 28.95 US
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: August 25, 1997
Annotation: Teenage motherhood is a worrisome problem in America today, and the welfare system tends to spotlight the black teenage mom. Based on her own experience as an African-American teenage mother, sociologist Elaine Bell Kaplan dispels common perceptions of these young women by reassessing the class, gender, and racial factors that influence black teenagers to become mothers.