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On Becoming a Teen Mom
By:Mary Patrice Erdmans,Timothy Black
Published on 2015-02-06 by Univ of California Press

In 2013, New York City launched a public education campaign with posters of frowning or crying children saying such things as |I’m twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen| and |Honestly, Mom, chances are he won’t stay with you.| Campaigns like this support a public narrative that portrays teen mothers as threatening the moral order, bankrupting state coffers, and causing high rates of poverty, incarceration, and school dropout. These efforts demonize teen mothers but tell us nothing about their lives before they became pregnant. In this myth-shattering book, the authors tell the life stories of 108 brown, white, and black teen mothers, exposing the problems in their lives often overlooked in pregnancy prevention campaigns. Some stories are tragic and painful, marked by sexual abuse, partner violence, and school failure. Others depict |girl next door| characters whose unintended pregnancies lay bare insidious gender disparities. Offering a fresh perspective on the links between teen births and social inequalities, this book demonstrates how the intersecting hierarchies of gender, race, and class shape the biographies of young mothers.

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This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you do not want to learn is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to start with, if it absolutely was meant to be read, then it will be a novel, not just a play. Along with that the teach had us students read the play aloud (on person for each character for a few pages). None people had see the play before. None of us wanted to see it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared as if they weren't paying attention. All this compounded to make me more or less hate reading classics for something such as 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And it also can definitely fuck up your GPA. 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