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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458416803321

Autore

Daguerre Anne

Titolo

When children become parents : Welfare state responses to teenage pregnancy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol : , : Policy Press, Jan. 2009

©Jan. 2009

ISBN

1-4473-0427-6

1-281-15977-8

9786611159771

1-84742-171-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

362.829

Soggetti

Political Science - Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare

Health & Fitness - Pregnancy & Childbirth

Public Welfare - Great Britain

Pregnancy, Adolescent

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; WHEN CHILDREN BECOME PARENTS - Welfare state responses to teenage pregnancy; Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; ONE - Introduction: the construction of teenage pregnancy as a social problem; Central argument and hypotheses; Outline of the book; Part One - Liberal welfare states; TWO - Young single mothers and 'welfare reform' in the US; THREE - Teenage pregnancy in New Zealand: changing social policy paradigms; FOUR - Teenage pregnancy and parenthood in England; Part Two - Continental and Scandinavian welfare states

FIVE - Approaches to teenage motherhood in Québec, CanadaSIX - Teenage pregnancy and reproductive politics in France; SEVEN - Early motherhood in Italy: explaining the 'invisibility' of a social phenomenon; EIGHT - Teenage reproductive behaviour in Denmark and Norway: lessons from the Nordic welfare state; Part Three - Transition states; NINE - Meeting the challenge of new teenage reproductive



behaviour in Russia; TEN - Teenage pregnancy in Poland: between laissez-faire and religious backlash

ELEVEN - Conclusion: welfare states and the politics of teenage pregnancy: lessons from cross-national comparisonsStatistical appendix: Teenage fertility in OECD countries; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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