Titlebook: Surviving Teenage Motherhood; Myths and Realities Helen Stapleton Book 2010 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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2731-6467 f motherhood. It examines changing attitudes to female sexuality and moral discourses on adolescent subjectivity especially as these pertain to teenage motherhood.978-1-349-36784-9978-0-230-28964-2Series ISSN 2731-6467 Series E-ISSN 2731-6475

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Introduction,motherhood. The agency-centred accounts from the teenagers and these selected others provide a counterbalance, and indeed something of an antidote, to the usual pathologising of young people who opt to ‘do’ their adolescent years differently from their mainstream peer groups. These narratives reflec

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Teenage Pregnancy, Motherhood and Family Life,have hitherto been inseparable from the narratives of other disadvantaged mothers. These accounts generally make for poignant reading, describing the cruel treatment of nonconformist mothers who, despite circumstances beyond their control, were shunned by society. Any discussion of contemporary teen

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Introducing the Teenagers and their Significant Others,ation of the study period Alys lived in the family home with her widowed mother (Angharad), two older brothers and the family’s elderly dog; her eldest brother lived locally with his girlfriend. They were a close-knit bilingual (Welsh-English) family; the household income was benefit derived and the

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Through Pregnancy,l indicators were generally accepted with the pragmatism I came to associate with teenagers, many were nonetheless surprised by the intensity of symptoms:.One sign of pregnancy, which all the teenagers viewed with a mixture of irritation and amusement, was that of food cravings. Jade referred to her

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Looking Back and Looking Forward,n found myself caught between conflicting loyalties and at times experienced considerable difficulty maintaining a neutral stance. For instance, I was sometimes overly critical of midwives’ interactions with the teenagers and/or their significant others, forgetting that I had once been in their shoe