21-11-2015 | Book Review
Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater: Growing Up Fast: Re-visioning Adolescent Mothers’ Transitions to Young Adulthood
Psychology Press, New York, NY, 2014, 282 pp, ISBN-13: 978-1848725720; Locs. 7858 (2014) (ebook)
Auteur:
Sarah C. Thompson
Gepubliceerd in:
Journal of Youth and Adolescence
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Uitgave 2/2016
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Excerpt
Growing Up Fast, by Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater, is the product of a 6 year longitudinal study on the transitions of ninety-two adolescent mothers in New York City. The mothers were interviewed at the start, then again after 6 months, 12 months, 28–36 months, and 6–7 years. The first edition of the book was published in 2001, and it has been reproduced to draw attention to issues that still face adolescent teenagers and the shortcomings of how America has addressed these issues in the past decade. The author notes that shaming, one-size fits all tactics, and treating teenage mothers as children will not yield positive results. She instead refers back to the research and to the stories told in the New York Study. Rejecting uniform approaches that perpetuate generalities, Ross Leadbeater, backed by the voices of women in her study, emphasizes the remarkable uniqueness of each story, and calls for services and policies capable of meeting each woman’s diverse needs. …