Early motherhood: A turning point in the complex lives of young mothers

Title: Early motherhood: A turning point in the complex lives of young mothers
Creator: Felstead, Karen
Date: 2019
Type: Text; Book chapter
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/179245
Identifier: vital:15560
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvmd85g9.9
Identifier: ISBN:978-1-77258-208-6
Abstract: Young mothers’ stories of motherhood are often invisible within the broader contexts of society, and young mothers may themselves be negatively affected by and unable to resist dominant cultural narratives circulated about them. Early motherhood manifests itself as a problem and social concern in academic literature policy and public discourses (Arai; Breheny and Stephens). Much of it invariably details the negative outcomes faced by young mothers, including poor parenting skills, health issues, welfare dependency, and lower educational attainment with little opportunity for future employability, which exacerbates their likelihood of living in poverty (Keegan and Corliss). Community judgment invariably considers young.
Publisher: Demeter Press
Relation: Feminist perspectives on young mothers and young mothering Chapter 6 p. 119-134
Rights: All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
Rights: Copyright Demeter Press
Subject: Mothers; Mothers- Social conditions; Teenage mothers; Motherhood
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