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Parenting Issues and Interventions with Adolescent Mothers

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Handbook of Child Abuse Research and Treatment

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Abstract

Adolescent parenthood and child maltreatment rank as two of this country’s leading contemporary social problems. Both problems seem, thus far, to be impervious to effective control, despite formidable efforts at prevention and intervention over the past quarter-century (Children’s Defense Fund, 1996; National Research Council, 1993; Weatherley, 1991). In addition to their shared status as social morbidities, the two conditions converge in some families. Because few adolescents are ready to independently assume the responsibilities of childrearing, teen mothers, particularly those with limited social and economic resources, are vulnerable to conditions that can escalate into child maltreatment. Thus, a chapter focusing on disadvantaged adolescent mothers is appropriate in a volume on child abuse.

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  1. Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, 60614, USA

    Karen S. Budd & Kristin D. Stockman

  2. Graduate School of Applied and Preventive Psychology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, 08855, USA

    Elizabeth N. Miller

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Budd, K.S., Stockman, K.D., Miller, E.N. (1998). Parenting Issues and Interventions with Adolescent Mothers. In: Lutzker, J.R. (eds) Handbook of Child Abuse Research and Treatment. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2909-2_15

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