This book questions the stereotypes and looks at how teenage parents can be supported.
Teenage pregnancy has been portrayed as a huge problem over the past 10 years. This book looks at how the media, academics and politicians have responded. Author Lisa Arai invites you to explore whether we have got caught up in just another moral panic about youth.
Arai asks whether it is such a calamity for a young woman to have a baby as a teenager, rather than in her 30s when education and career formation are complete. She questions the robustness of the research driving the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy. For example, that teenage pregnancy is the cause of social exclusion, that it limits the life options of young women and has an adverse effect on their health.
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