Becoming a young mother
Teenage pregnancy and parenting policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11432122 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Naomi Rudoe (0000-0002-4782-490X, University of Westminster, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 293-311 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-0183 • E-ISSN: 1461-703X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0261018314526007 |
| OpenAlex | W2117771023 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 31 |
As part of New Labour’s commitment to reducing social exclusion, their Teenage Pregnancy Strategy (1999–2010) aimed to reduce teenage conceptions in England and Wales and to increase the participation of young parents in education, employment and training. The Coalition government, while discontinuing the Strategy, has increased the focus on early intervention, parenting and targeted support for ‘troubled families’. This article examines teenage pregnancy and parenting policies in the context of an alternative educational setting for pregnant young women and mothers. Young women and staff in this setting held complex attitudes towards the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy and towards parenting interventions and ideas about ‘good’ motherhood. The data demonstrate both resistance to and support for such policy interventions, as well as a contested and unstable notion of the ‘good mother’. The article argues that parenting education needs to be sensitive towards structural inequalities and difficulties rather than purely focusing on behaviour change
Context (archaeology · Developmental psychology · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Inequality · Intervention (counseling · Parenting skills · Pregnancy · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Resistance (ecology · Social exclusion · Teenage pregnancy · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
After the ‘need for … a father’
Without Education You Can Never Become President’
Contemporary young motherhood
Teenage Mothers and Social Isolation
Transitions to motherhood
Teenage childbearing
Low-income Roma Mothers Negotiating Mothering in the Context of Poverty
What’s the Story? Views of Pregnant Teens in Qualitative Research
Parental Experiences for Teenage Mothers Living in Poverty
Acting Their Age? An Intersectional Approach on Young Motherhood From Young Mothers’ Perspectives
It's the way they look at you'
The politics of government ‘support’ in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Practising care in teenage mother support groups
Assembling Citizenship
Nappy bags instead of handbags
Analysing Narrative Contexts
Growing Up Girl
An Agenda for Children
Making modern mothers
Investing in Parenting Education
Resilient Young Mothering
Children having children? Religion, psychology and the birth of the teenage pregnancy problem
I’m so much more myself now, coming back to work’ – working class mothers, paid work and childcare
Classing early intervention
Meeting parents’ needs? Discourses of ‘support’ and ‘inclusion’ in family policy
Childhood, parenting and early intervention
What's the problem with teenage parents? And what's the problem with policy
Childcare, choice and social class
Letting them get away with it
Including Young Mothers
Between the estate and the state
Concerted Cultivation? Parenting Values, Education and Class Diversity
Struggles for value
From Function to Competence
Locating Where the Action Is
Making Up' the Middle-Class Child
Growing Up in Poor Neighbourhoods
Raising the 'Meritocracy
New Labour's Teenage Pregnancy Policy
Families 'At Risk' and the Family Nurse Partnership
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2022 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |