Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...

A guide meant to prepare teenage fathers for parenthood includes information about such topics as stress, adoption, child support, and father-child bonding.

Openly gay sixteen-year-old Ben must make difficult decisions when his experiment to prove he is gay leads to his best friend Maxie becoming pregnant.

"A gang leader's son finds his effort to go straight for the sake of his child challenged by a loved one's brutal murder, in a poignant exploration of Black coming-of-age set seventeen years before the events of the award-winning 'The Hate U Give'"-- Provided by publisher. "En Garden Heights, ser niño implica, desde muy temprano, demostrar que eres un hombre. La lealtad a tu pandilla, a tu familia, a tus ideales, es un peso que amenaza con derrumbarte...

This book explores unplanned pregnancies and the steps teens can take when in this situation. The title examines birth control options, the symptoms of pregnancy, and how the decision to parent, put a child up for adoption, or abort may affect a teen's life.

Discusses the emotional, physical, and financial concerns involved with becoming a teenage father and examines the responsibilities and choices offered by the situation.

At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.

Told in two voices, Ally and Jake, back together and both "Cresties" again as senior year begins, are shocked when Chloe tells Jake he is the father of her child.

When Olivia opens the bathroom door, the last thing she expects to see is her best friend, Nicola, giving birth on the oor. And to say that Nicola is shocked is an understatement. She's not ready to be a mother, and she needs Olivia's help. But Olivia has her own problems--specically her bullying boyfriend, Jonty, and having to keep an eye on her younger sister, Alice. And then there's their friend Ben, who's struggling with secrets of his own.