Teenage mothers access to education

In Not The End Of The Story: supporting teenage mothers back into education, Jane Evans and Martha Slowely assert that schools act to  unofficially exclude young mothers from education for spurious "health and safety" reasons, further damaging the life chances of mothers and their children who may already have had poor experiences of schooling prior to pregnancy.

Teenage parenthood

A new study, Duncan ,S. (2010) "Teenage parenthood: what's the problem", makes the case that parenthood can be an encouragement for young people to imrove their lives and is not in itself a cause of poor outcomes for mothers or their children. See Guardian February 13, 2010. The study argues against the labelling, by politicians,of teenage parenthood as a social evil, and calls for more attention to be directed towards social and economic disadvantage rather than specific policies targeting teenage pregnancy.

Highlights from Careknowledge December

Ross, N. (2009). Young fathers and their experiences of forming families, a study from the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships.
Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland. (2009) Too Close to See. Report into the care and treatment of Mr F. Deficiencies in this care contributed to a serious incident and the death of Mr F.'s father.
Heslop, P & Macauley, F. (2010). Damage Limitation. Learning Disability today. Jan 2010, pp. 16-18. On research with people with learning diasabilities who self-harm.