Teenage Pregnancy: The Making and Unmaking of a Problem (Health & Society) by Lisa Arai
English | July 22, 2009 | ISBN: 1847420745, 1847420753 | 190 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | July 22, 2009 | ISBN: 1847420745, 1847420753 | 190 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
In the last decades of the 20th century, successive British Governments have regarded adolescent pregnancy and childbearing as a significant public health and social problem. Youthful pregnancy was once tackled by attacking young, single mothers but New Labour, through its Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, linked early pregnancy to social exclusion rather than personal morality and aimed, instead, to reduce teenage pregnancy and increase young mothers' participation in education and employment. However, the problematisation of early pregnancy has been contested, and it has been suggested that teenage mothers have been made scapegoats for wider, often unsettling, social and demographic changes.