Understanding the Significance of the Teenage Mother in Contemporary Parenting Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2642601 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Macvarish (University of Kent, Canterbury, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 99-105 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5153/sro.2238 |
| OpenAlex | W2104654132 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 16 |
This paper attempts to understand the prominence given to teenage pregnancy in policy discussions since the late-1990s by contextualising it within a broader analysis of the contemporary 'culture of parenting'. The emerging field of parenting culture studies has begun to develop an analysis of the key features of policy, practice and informal culture. Three key concepts are discussed to shed an alternative light on the issue of teenage pregnancy and parenthood with the hope of further developing the healthy debate that has emerged in recent years in response to policy priorities: the development of 'parental tribalism' whereby differing parental choices and behaviour become a site for identity formation; the idea of a deficit at the level of parenting and intimate familial relationships; the reconceptualising of the parent as an autonomous, authoritative adult to a more infantilised imagining. The teenage mother, herself neither adult nor child, becomes emblematic of these developments
Aesthetics · Developmental psychology · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Teenage pregnancy · Tribalism · Early Childhood Education and Development · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
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Introduction
| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |