| Description |
xli, 403 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
a Previously published: New York : Aldine-De Gruyter Pub. Co., c1986. With new introd. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / David A. Hamburg -- I. Introduction -- The biosocial dimensions of school-age pregancy and parenthood: an introduction / Jane B. Lancaster and Beatrix A. Hamburg -- II. The life cycle and biological development -- Human adolescence and reproduction : an evolutionary perspective / Jane B. Lancaster -- Timing of menarche : secular trend and population differences / Phyllis B. Eveleth -- The neuroendocrine regulation of pubertal onset / Edward O. Reiter -- The biology of teenage pregnancy : the mother and the child / Stanley M. Garn, Shelly D. Pestick, Audrey S. Petzold -- Developmental dyssynchrony as normative experience : Kikuyr adolescents / Carol M. Worthman -- III. Development : Emotional, cognitive, and sexual -- Subsets of adolescent mothers : developmental, biomedical, and psychosocial issues / Beatrix A. Hamburg -- Pubertal development and its relation to cognitive and psychosocial development in adolescent girls : implications for parenting / Anne C. Petersen and Lisa Crockett -- Adolescent fathers : the under studied side of adolsecent pregnancy / Arthur B. Elster and Michael E. Lamb -- Some psychosocial aspects of adolescent sexual and contraceptive behaviors in a changing American society / Catherine S. Chilman -- Family communication and contraceptive use among sexually active adolescents / Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. ... [et al.] -- IV. Comparative dimensions : species, history, and culture -- Adolescent pregnancies in non-human primates : an ecological and developmental perspective / Jeanne Altmann -- School age parenthood in different ethnic groups and family constellations : effects on infant development / Tiffany Field ... [et al.] -- The duration of maidenhood across cultures / John W.M. Whiting, Victoria K. Burbank, Mitchell S. Ratner -- Adolescent sexuality, pregnancy, and childbearing in early America : some preliminary speculations / Maris A. Vinovskis -- V. The modern world -- Adolescent pregnancy and childbearing : an anthropological perspective / Melvin Konner and Majorie Shostak -- School age parents and child abuse / Richard J. Gelles -- The economic impact of school-age child rearing / Lorraine V. Klerman -- A developmental perspective on school-age parenthood / Charles M. Super. |
| Subject |
Teenage pregnancy.
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Teenage pregnancy -- Social aspects.
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| Added Author |
Lancaster, Jane Beckman, 1935-
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Hamburg, Beatrix A.
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| ISBN |
9780202362410 alkaline paper |
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0202362418 alkaline paper |
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