Pregnant teenagers and young mothers experience embodied exclusion due to the range of attempts aimed at controlling their sexual behaviour. Embodied exclusion in this context is the result of having the sexual health needs and experiences of pregnant teenagers and young mothers excluded from formal and informal sexual health education.

Seventeen mothers, whose infants ranged in age from 2 to 1 5 months, were asked to elicit in their children a simple emotion (pleasurel and a complex one (pride). Most of the mothers (15/171 believed that this could be done. An analysis of the mothers' elicitations revealed the existence of behavioral frameworks that were differentiated both with regard to the emotion as well as the age of the ...

Mothers of children recently placed in foster care, foster mothers, and child welfare workers participated in semistructured, clinical interviews focusing on the challenges of parent visitation with young children. Mothers described their feelings of grief, trauma, and rage about the forced separation from their children and stressed the importance of emotional expression and communication duri...

Building on research examining "boomerang" adult children, I examine multigenerational living among young parents. Returning home likely differs between young mothers and fathers given variation in socioeconomic characteristics, health and risk-taking, their own children's coresidence, and union stability. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), I find that more than 40% ...

http://fnp.nhs.uk/ The Family Nurse Partnerships (FNPs) is a preventive, intensive home visiting programme for vulnerable, first time young mothers, aged nineteen or under where a specially trained family nurse visits the young mother regularly, from early pregnancy until the child is aged two. The service also supports young fathers via the mothers. Based on international evidence, the FNP pro...

OBJECTIVES Among young children in low-income families covered by Medicaid, we estimated (according to racial/ethnic group) whether children who have mothers with a regular source of dental care at baseline have greater dental use in the subsequent year than children with mothers without a regular source. METHODS From a population of 108151 children (aged 3 to 6 years) who were enrolled in Me...

OBJECTIVES Despite recent efforts to increase breastfeeding, young African American mothers continue to breastfeed at low rates, and commonly introduce complementary foods earlier than recommended. This study examines the effects of a community doula home visiting intervention on infant feeding practices among young mothers. METHODS Low-income, African American mothers (n = 248) under age 22 ...

OBJECTIVE This study sought to understand the tasks and activities involved in the caring and nurturing work of mothering, a common and important occupation for many women. METHOD In-depth, semistructured individual interviews were conducted with 40 mothers: 20 mothers of preschool-age children and 20 mothers of young adults. In addition, participants completed a questionnaire describing the ...

BACKGROUND Motherhood is a significant and important aspect of life for many women around the globe. For women in communities where motherhood is highly desired, motherhood is considered crucial to the woman's identity. Teenage motherhood, occurring at a critical developmental stage of teenagers' lives, has been identified as having adverse social and health consequences. This research aimed to...