Abstract
“Teenage parenthood is bad for parents and children” (Social Exclusion Unit, 1999a, p. 90) was a statement from an officiai British document prescribing poverty and education policies to tackle social exclusion arising from teenage pregnancy. The U.S. government made similar statements in developing “programs for abstinence education” for teens to teach “that bearing children out-of-wedlock is likely to have harmful consequences for the child, the child’s parents, and society” (Social Security Act #510 1996). Most recently, President Bush refused to endorse a UN declaration on children’s rights unless UN plans for sexuality and health education taught only abstinence before marriage (New Statesman, May 17, 2002).
This chapter derives from a paper originally prepared for the Umea University, Sweden and UW-Madison joint invitational conference in Sweden held on May 18–20, 2001, on Restructuring the Governing Patterns of the Child, Education and the Welfare State, and the invitational Keele University Department of Education conference, June 26–27, 2001, on Travelling Policy. It has also been presented at two seminars in New Zealand at the Universities of Auckland (August 14,2001) andWaikato (August 17,2001) and used as a basis for a summer school course on Families, gender and education: Issues of policy and practice in the Department of Education Policy Studies and Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison (July 14–August 9, 2001). I am most grateful to the participants at these various seminars for help with revisions to this paper and its arguments. I am especially grateful to Erin Haley, a graduate student at UW-Madison, for her work on the teen pregnancy and prevention programs in the United States and to Dr. Pamela Alldred and Ms. Pat Smith, my colleagues on the SREPAR project at Keele for help in preparing this chapter. It is a version of a work in progress on understanding global, national, and local discourses about education, particularly for young people, in relation to aspects of social inclusion and exclusion. It considers how such official discourses have been borrowed and transported between various countries, especially the United States and UK.
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David, M. (2003). Teenage Parenthood is Bad for Parents and Children. In: Bloch, M.N., Holmlund, K., Moqvist, I., Popkewitz, T.S. (eds) Governing Children, Families, and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08023-3_7
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