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Is being a young mother any different from being any other mother? ‘Teenage mothers’ often find themselves on the receiving end of adverse publicity — ‘Irresponsible’, ‘dependent on the State’, ‘jumping the queue for council housing’, ‘unmarried and therefore immoral’ — yet the majority are successful as parents, often in difficult circumstances.
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MacKeith, P., Phillipson, R. (1997). Young mothers. In: Kargar, I., Hunt, S.C. (eds) Challenges in Midwifery Care. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13425-0_9
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