A01=Prudence Mors Rains
adolescent sexuality research
Author_Prudence Mors Rains
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Contraceptive Methods
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Future Sexual Behavior
girls
Group Therapy Discussion
Group Therapy Meetings
hawthorne
Hawthorne House
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illegitimate
Illegitimate Pregnancy
Intake Interview
Long Term Love Relationship
Lower Class Negroes
Maternity Home
moral career development unwed mothers
Moral Reprieve
Negro Unwed Mother
pregnancy
Pregnancy Test Services
Premarital Sexual
Premarital Sexual Behavior
Premarital Sexual Experience
Premarital Sexual Freedom
Premarital Sexual Relations
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Project Girls
Psychiatric Version
psychosocial adjustment adolescence
qualitative case studies
racial disparities pregnancy
social agency intervention
sociology of reproduction
Teen Age
Teen Ager
Unwed Mother
White Unwed Mothers
Product details
- ISBN 9780202309552
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Most unmarried women who engage in sexual intercourse do not become unwed mothers; they use contraceptives, secure an abortion, or get married before the baby is born. What happens to the minority of women who bear illegitimate children? This book is the first study to describe in detail the actual situation of unwed motherhood, as opposed to the causes and pathology of deviance. Based largely on observation of middle-class white girls in a psychiatricallyoriented mater nity home and lower-class black teenagers in a day school for unwed mothers, the study focuses on the unwed mother's moral career as it is shaped by social agencies.
Prudence Mors Rains is retired professor of sociology at McGill University, Montreal. She graduated from Lake Forest College and received her graduate degrees from Northwestern University. She has been a recipient of a National Science Foundation dissertation research grant. Her professional interests lie in the areas of deviance and social control in regards to woman and youth as well as qualitative methods, specifically ethnography.
