When Children Want Children: THE URBAN CRISIS OF TEENAGE CHILDBEARING - Softcover

Dash, Leon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252071239 ISBN 13: 9780252071232

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2003

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Book by Dash Leon

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ADVANCE PRAISE "An excellent way to begin thinking seriously about a very American dilemma." -- John Edgar Wideman, Washington Post "This groundbreaking book by an extraordinary journalist made me understand why children have children in a way that I never have before. Dash makes it clear that no issue is more important to the future of the black community at large than this one." -- Paula Giddings, author of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Washington Post reporter Leon Dash spent a year living in one of the poorest ghettos in Washington, D.C., and a total of seventeen months conducting interviews examining the causes and effects of the ever-lowering age of teenage parents among poor black youths. Dash had expected to find inadequate sex education and lack of birth control to be the root cause of the growing trend toward early motherhood, but his conversations with the mothers themselves revealed the truth to be more complex. A riveting account of the human stories behind the statistics, When Children Want Children allows readers to hear the voices of young adults struggling with poverty and parenthood and gets to the heart of teenage parents' cultural values and motivations.

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• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0252071239
• ISBN 13: 9780252071232
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280