Catalog Record Details

Category:
Book

Title:
School-age Pregnancy and Parenthood: Biosocial Dimensions

Editor:
Jane B. Lancaster
Beatrix A. Hamburg

Publisher:
New York: Aldine de Gruyter

Publication Year:
1986

Subject:
TEENAGE PREGNANCY

Call Number:
RG 556.5 S36 1986

Alternate Location:
New Acquisitions

Chapters:
  • 1) The Biosocial Dimensions of School-Age Pregnancy and Parenthood: An Introduction. Jane B. Lancaster Beatrix A. Hamburg. pp3-16.
  • 2) Human Adolescence and Reproduction: An Evolutionary Perspective. Jane B. Lancaster. pp17-38.
  • 3) Timing Menarche: Secular Trend and Population Differences. Phyllis B. Eveleth. pp39-52.
  • 4) The Neuroendocrine Regulation of Pubertal Onset. Edward O. Reiter. pp53-76.
  • 5) The Biology of Teenage Pregnancy: The Mother and the Child. Stanley M. Garn Shelly D. Pesick Audrey S. Petzold. pp77-94.
  • 6) Developmental Dyssynchrony as Normative Experience: Kikuyu Adolescents. Carol M. Worthman. pp95-114.
  • 7) Subsets of Adolescent Mothers: Developmental, Biomedical, and Psychosocial Issues. Beatrix A. Hamburg. pp115-146.
  • 8) Pubertal Development and Its Relation to Cognitive and Psychosocial Development in Adolescent Girls: Implications for Parenting. Anne C. Petersen Lisa Crockett. pp147-176.
  • 9) Adolescent Fathers: The Under Studied Side of Adolescent Pregnancy. Arthur B. Elster Michael E. Lamb. pp177-190.
  • 10) Some Psychosocial Aspects of Adolescent Sexual and Contraceptive Behaviors in a Changing American Society. Catherine S. Chilman. pp191-218.
  • 11) Family Communication and Contraceptive Use among Sexually Active Adolescents. Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. Roberta Herceg-Baron Judy Chea David Webb. pp219-247.
  • 12) Adolescent Pregnancies in Non-Human Primates: An Ecological and Developmental Perspective. Jeanne Altmann. pp247-262.
  • 13) School-Age Parenthood in Different Ethnic Groups and Family Constellations: Effects on Infant Development. Tiffany Field Susan Widmayer Sherilyn Stoller Mercedes de Cubas. pp263-272.
  • 14) The Duration of Maidenhood Across Cultures. John W. M. Whiting Victoria K. Burbank Mitchell S. Ratner. pp273-302.
  • 15) Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing in Early America: Some Preliminary Speculations. Maris A. Vinovskis. pp303-324.
  • 16) Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing: An Anthropological Perspective. Melvin Konner Majorie Shostak. pp325-346.
  • 17) School-Age Parents and Child Abuse. Richard J. Gelles. pp347-360.
  • 18) The Economic Impact of School-Age Child Rearing. Lorraine V. Klerman. pp361-378.
  • 19) A Developmental Perspective on School-Age Parenthood. Charles M. Super. pp379-386.

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