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Author Dash, Leon.

Title When children want children : the urban crisis of teenage childbearing / Leon Dash.

Imprint Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2003.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.874 D229W    Check Shelf
Edition 1st Illinois pbk.
Description 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Originally published: New York : William Morrow, ©1989. 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."
"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."--Jacket.
Subject African American teenage mothers -- Washington (D.C.) -- Case studies.
Teenage pregnancy -- Washington (D.C.) -- Case studies.
African American teenagers -- Sexual behavior -- Washington (D.C.) -- Case studies.
Washington Highlands (Washington, D.C.)
African American teenage mothers. (OCoLC)fst00799404
African American teenagers -- Sexual behavior. (OCoLC)fst00799412
Teenage pregnancy. (OCoLC)fst01145514
Washington (D.C.) (OCoLC)fst01204505
Washington (D.C.) -- Washington Highlands. (OCoLC)fst01323005
Mère adolescente.
Parent adolescent.
Afro-américain.
Afro-américaine.
Grossesse à l'adolescence.
Washington (D.C.)
Junge Eltern (DE-588)4206929-4
Minderjährigkeit (DE-588)4170005-3
Schwangerschaft (DE-588)4053724-9
Schwarze.
United States.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
Case studies.
ISBN 0252071239 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780252071232 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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