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‘It Feels Like It’s a Cultural Thing in This Area’: The Study in Context

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Teenage Pregnancy, Parenting and Intergenerational Relations

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This chapter describes the locations where teenage parents, their parents and the people who work with them took part in the fieldwork for this study. By discovering the geographical, social, economic and cultural contexts for the study, the reader will begin to understand the lives of the teenage parents and their families. The theoretical frameworks that inform data collection and analysis are also outlined.

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    LSOAs are geographic areas designed to make reporting of small area statistics in local authorities in England and Wales more accurate. Each LSOA has a population of between 1000 and 3000 people. They replace statistics being reported at electoral ward level as wards varied greatly in size so were not easily comparable.

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Brown, S. (2016). ‘It Feels Like It’s a Cultural Thing in This Area’: The Study in Context. In: Teenage Pregnancy, Parenting and Intergenerational Relations. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49539-6_3

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