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Kaplan challenges the assumption, often reinforced by the popular media, that the African American community condones teen pregnancy, single parenting, and reliance on welfare. Especially telling are the feelings of frustration, anger, and disappointment expressed by the mothers and grandmothers Kaplan interviewed.
And in listening to teenage mothers discuss their problems, Kaplan hears firsthand of their misunderstandings regarding sex, their fraught relationships with men, and their difficulties with the educational system - all factors that bear heavily on their status as young parents.
Kaplan's own experience as an African American teenage mother adds a personal dimension to this book, and she offers substantial proposals for rethinking and reassessing the class factors, gender relations, and racism that influence Black teenagers to become mothers.
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African American teenage mothers, Case studies, Teenage pregnancy, Afro-American teenage mothers, African american youth, Pregnancy, adolescent, Adolescent girls, Sociology, Mères adolescentes noires américaines, Études de cas, Grossesse chez l'adolescente, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS, Parenting, Motherhood, Sociology & Social History, Social Sciences, Family & MarriagePlaces
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Not Our Kind of Girl: Unravelling the Myths of Black Teenage Motherhood
August 26, 1997, University of California Press
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Not Our Kind of Girl: Unravelling the Myths of Black Teenage Motherhood
August 25, 1997, University of California Press
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Not Our Kind of Girl: Unravelling the Myths of Black Teenage Motherhood
1997, University of California Press
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Not our kind of girl: unraveling the myths of Black teenage motherhood
1997, University of California Press
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"In Black America many teenage girls become mothers before they complete their education, even before they reach maturity."
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