Adolescent Childbearing as Career 'Choice': Perspective from an Ecological Context.

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8

Adolescents; Black Youth; Career Choice; Decision Making; Early Parenthood; Females; Higher Education; Individual Development; Poverty

0748-9633

Childbearing among African American girls of lower socioeconomic status who are 16 to 21 years of age constitutes a "career choice" and an alternative, normative path within African American culture. The author addresses this choice from the perspective of vocational and developmental psychology. The views presented incorporate a reassessment of the negative consequences of adolescent childbearing. (JPS)

1995

EJ504694