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- 1From:Families, Systems & Health (Vol. 16, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFam Syst & Health 16:365-366, 1998 Teenaged mothers struggle daily with the practical difficulties of their lives. Added to that, they feel the sharp sting of society's condemnation. Yet many are resilient, winning...
- 2From:Families, Systems & Health (Vol. 16, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis paper describes the strengths and resiliencies of successful adolescent mothers and raises important questions for our ongoing collaborative conversations about nonmarital teenage parenthood. A qualitative research...
- 3From:Hecate (Vol. 45, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedWhen our mothers came, they took shelter in the forests. There were forests back in those days, they told us. Green places full of animals and other beasts. They nested by the lake, high up in the trees. They feasted on...
- 4From:Exceptional Children (Vol. 59, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Competing demands of school and home can thrust adolescent mothers into stressful situations. Meeting the requirements to achieve academically can be a challenge, especial/y for students previously identified...
- 5From:Social Work (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSingle mothers and their children constitute an economically vulnerable population in Sweden as they do elsewhere in the industrialized world. U.S. policy specialists have frequently commented on the generous array of...
- 6From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 55, Issue 11)Byline: ERIC HOOVER Statistics can tell you a lot, but statistics do not grieve. That was the power of a group of activists who emerged in the early 1980s. They called themselves Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and...
- 7From:PLoS Medicine (Vol. 19, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground Studies in low- and middle-income regions suggest that child marriage (<18 years) is a risk factor for poor reproductive outcomes among women. However, in high-income-country contexts where childbearing...
- 8From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 82, Issue 2)Therefore do not work, for the night cometh wherein the voices of the Mothers will pulse in blackberries that ripen on the cliff and whir around you like dragonflies, stitch the licks of cloud with their bone needles....
- 9From:Journal of Sociology (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWorking their way out of poverty? Over the last 30 years, Australian policy perspectives on sole parents' relationship with the labour market have completely reversed. Discourses on public provision, which previously...
- 10From:University of New Brunswick Law Journal (Vol. 64) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Lesbian couples and single women are choosing to become parents, typically via some form of assisted conception, at ever increasing rates. These two groups make up approximately thirty per cent of all clients...
- 11From:Journal of Sociology (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction For many sole mothers, fulfilling the expectations of welfare to work programs implemented in recent years by `liberal' welfare states (1) poses particular difficulties (Shaver et al., 1994; Edin and...
- 12From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 20, Issue 2)The percentage of children living apart from their fathers in the US has been steadily increasing. This social phenomenon is the main cause of many social problems such as crime, delinquency, teenage pregnancy,...
- 13From:Family MattersThere is a large and growing literature on the issue of how parents combine family and work responsibilities, a great deal of which focuses on mothers in dual-earner couple families. However, although they may be...
- 14From:National Tax Journal (Vol. 73, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMany low-income households experience high-frequency labor market transitions. It is unclear how the earned income tax credit (EITC) work incentives affect these frequent entry and exit decisions. Exploiting the panel...
- 15From:Policy Review (Issue 76) Peer-ReviewedUnwed teen-age mothers, in order to be eligible for government money, should be required to stay in private group homes, which would provide the stability needed to get off welfare. The state must devise a way to protect...
- 16From:BMC Public Health (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Joanne N Leerlooijer1,2 , Arjan ER Bos4 , Robert AC Ruiter2 , Miranda AJ van Reeuwijk3 , Liesbeth E Rijsdijk5,2 , Nathan Nshakira6 and Gerjo Kok2 Background Even though fertility rates among adolescents...
- 17From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public LifeThe baby was extra clingy today. At eighteen months, Monica has just this week cut two of her three emerging molars, which had been bulging and sore for weeks. She did not want to be put down and kept coming to grab my...
- 18From:Monthly Labor Review (Vol. 109) Peer-ReviewedRise in mothers' labor force activity includes those with infants The notion that mothers of preschool-aged children, especially infants, usually stay out of the labor force at least until their youngest child has...
- 19From:Affilia Journal of Women and Social Work (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article reports on a study of differences in the psychological and social well-being, spousal support, and job satisfaction of three groups of married mothers: those who were employed full-time in...
- 20From:New Coin Poetry (Vol. 55, Issue 1)So what, we are mothers? Must we degenerate into storefront dummies with broken arms? Trade our lacy thongs for long johns or silk nighties for box tees stained in veggie puree? So what, we are mothers? Must we pawn our...