Research and programs for adolescent mothers:

Missing links and future promises.

by Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Paikoff, Roberta L.

American Behavioral Scientist. Vol 35(3), Jan-Feb 1992, 290-312.  

 

Discusses 2 recent theoretical approaches that provide a useful framework for considering the impact of adolescent parenthood on families and the possibilities for intervention: the ecological and family systems approaches. Both approaches permit a consideration of change in various family members, brought about by a teenage birth. The life courses of 3 family members, the teenage mother, her child, and her own mother, are considered to explicate how change co-occurs. Intervention programs that attempt to change the lives of families with teenage mothers are discussed as exemplars of current approaches.