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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811081403321

Titolo

Inter-professional approaches to young fathers / / edited by Jane Reeves

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Keswick [England], : M&K Update, 2008

ISBN

1-907830-29-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ReevesJane

Disciplina

306.8742

Soggetti

Teenage fathers

Teenage parents

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Prelims; Table of contents; Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 Contextualising the evidence: Young fathers, family and professional support; Chapter 2 The legislative and policy context of young fathers and their children; Chapter 3 'I've got to release it': Sexual health and young men; Chapter 4 A father is born: The role of the midwife in involving young fathers in the birth and early parenting of their children; Chapter 5 Safeguarding young fathers and their children; Chapter 6 The role of fathers in their children's lives; Chapter 7 Recklessness, rescue and responsibility; Index

Sommario/riassunto

With one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, young fatherhood, as a site of economic and personal adversity, has become a focus of concern in Britain during the late 1990's. However, despite this policy interest there is surprisingly little British empirical evidence to review.One of the aims of the book is to draw together contemporary research evidence, social theory and policy which may effect how practitioners, students and academics conceptualise and work with young fathers. Consequently, each chapter illustrates the points it makes using discrete evidence from that particul