1st Edition

Choice and Circumstance

By Margaret C. Simms Copyright 1986
165 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

165 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1986. Forty five percent of black women have at least one child by the time they are turn twenty compared to 19 percent of white women. Eight-six percent of the births to black teens occurred to unmarried mothers compared to 30 percent among whites. Research shows that teenage childbearing has negative medical, social, and economic consequences and that women who first gave... Read more
1. Introduction 2. A Review of Fertility Data 3. Information and Attitudes 4. Contraception and Abortion 5. Education as a Motivating F actor 6. Occupational Plans, Job Training and Fertility 7. Marriage and Family 8. Summary and Conclusions

Biography

Margaret C. Simms, Kristen A. Moore, Charles L. Betsy