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This ABC News program sheds light on the most heartbreaking dilemma a teen mother can face. Viewers enter the lives of Erin and Brookanne, who-because of college plans and financial hardships-have decided against motherhood and now reside at the Gladney Center for Adoption, a unique facility for pregnant teens in Fort Worth, Texas. Ob-gyn appointments, counseling sessions, and meetings with hopeful adoptive parents reveal the medical, emotional, and...
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Grounded for Life examines the rising national trend of unplanned pregnancies in the teen population. Utilizing actual case studies and interviews with teenage mothers, it illustrates the risk factors, motivations, and thought processes associated with the rapidly growing teenage pregnancy problem. Thought-provoking footage of single teenage parents portrays the economic and emotional hardships they face. Detailed investigations of educational programs...
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This hard-hitting documentary uses interviews with several girls, their boyfriends, parents, counselors, teachers, and other professionals to examine one of the most critical issues facing young Americans today. Exploring the reasons why so many teenagers get pregnant, the video looks at the facts on adolescent sexual behavior and attitudes toward birth control. Although the emphasis is focused on the mother-to-be, the program also studies the parental...
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This program provides young men and women with realistic expectations about what single parenthood is like and what skills they will need to cope. Topics include prenatal care, daycare and finances, and tending to their own emotional needs and those of their newborn. Case studies that discuss the pregnancy, birth, and child-rearing help viewers to identify with their own situation. Experts offer advice, including how to balance home and work with...
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This program examines teenage pregnancy from the teenage father's point of view. It is an in-depth look at the attitudes of young men toward sex, birth control, and teenage fatherhood. Teen pregnancy, its cost to society, and the plight of young mothers and their newborns are discussed, along with how most young fathers deal with the reality of a pregnant girlfriend. A final section examines the role of teenage fathers in child-rearing, and discusses...
9) The test
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"Liselle Mason is in trouble. For weeks, she ignored the changes in her body and tried to forget her brief relationship with Oscar Price, her moody classmate at Bluford High. But when Liselle's clothes stop fitting, and her brother notices her growing belly, she panics. A pregnancy test confirms her biggest fears. Unwilling to admit the truth, Liselle suddenly faces a world with no easy answers. Where will she turn? Who will she tell? What will she...
10) The snapper
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Meet the Rabbitte family, motley bunch of loveable ne'er-do-wells whose everyday purgatory is rich with hangovers, dogshit and dirty dishes. When the older sister announces her pregnancy, the family are forced to rally together and discover the strangeness of intimacy.
But the question remains: which friend of the family is the father of Sharon's child?
By the bestselling author of The Commitments, now a long-running West End stage
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"A heartrending story about a young mother's fight to keep her daughter and the winds of fortune that tear them apart, by the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things and The Last Year of the War. California, 1938--When she loses her parents in an accident, sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she has lived her whole life as the vinedresser's daughter. She moves into Celine and Truman Calvert's...
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"Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles, our charmingly dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial about it all. She's grieving the death of her father (who she has more in common with than she'd like to admit), avoiding her supportive mom and loving boyfriend, and flagrantly ignoring her future. Her world is further upended when she becomes obsessed with Jenny, a stay-at-home mother...
13) Masked
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Rosie walks in on an armed robbery in her father's convenience store. Who is the masked man? And why does she think she knows him?
14) Not my daughter
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A pregnancy pact between three teenaged girls puts their mothers' love to the ultimate test in this emotionally wrenching story of love and forgiveness.
16) Teen parenting
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Contains eleven essays that provide varying perspectives on issues related to teen parenting.
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The Healthy Steps for Teen Parents series helps teens navigate life from the first signs of pregnancy through birth, diapers, and finishing school. Videos provide a real-world approach to succeeding as young parents. Volume 1- Pregnancy includes: prenatal care & nutrition, protecting your baby, physical & emotional changes, and getting support.
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The Healthy Steps for Teen Parents series helps teens navigate life from the first signs of pregnancy through birth, diapers, and finishing school. Videos provide a real-world approach to succeeding as young parents. Volume 1- Pregnancy includes: prenatal care & nutrition, protecting your baby, physical & emotional changes, and getting support.
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This program helps teens navigate life from the first signs of pregnancy through birth, diapers, and finishing school. Created specifically to hold the attention of young adults, this series uses an encouraging, real-world approach to show teens how to succeed as young parents. Volume 2 Labor & Birth includes: anatomy and birth, medical procedures, and newborns.
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This program helps teens navigate life from the first signs of pregnancy through birth, diapers, and finishing school. Created specifically to hold the attention of young adults, this series uses an encouraging, real-world approach to show teens how to succeed as young parents. Volume 2 Labor & Birth includes: anatomy and birth, medical procedures, and newborns.