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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
When Washington Post reporter Dash moved into the ghetto community of Washington Highlands, his behind-the-scenes viewpoint resulted in an award-winning report on adolescent childbearing, a problem of shocking dimensions. As he talked to teenage parents, many of his preconceptions about the high incidence of pregnancy among poor, black urban youth were proved wrong. What became depressingly clear is that for these youngsters, "a baby is a tangible achievement in an otherwise dreary and empty future," a rite of passage with historical antecedents. In exploring why so many black teenagers are caught up in the syndrome and its devastating consequences, Dash became more than a working reporter. At times confidant and friend, he has written a sociological report that reaches to the roots of early childbearing patterns.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Growing out of a fine series that reporter Dash did for the Washington Post in 1986, this book focuses on young black parents in a Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Dash's first-hand observations and sustained interviewing over a 17-month period led to his understanding that the pregnancies did not just "happen." Rather, these young adolescents consciously conceived children, for social status, for self-realization, and, Dash concludes, for a host of other complex, underlying reasons. An engrossing work about the nature of a pattern that extends beyond the particular individuals whose hopes and feelings Dash so vividly portrays. For professionals, academics, and lay readers. Suzanne W. Wood, SUNY Coll. of Technology, Alfred
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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When Washington Post reporter Dash moved into the ghetto community of Washington Highlands, his behind-the-scenes viewpoint resulted in an award-winning report on adolescent childbearing, a problem of shocking dimensions. As he talked to teenage parents, many of his preconceptions about the high incidence of pregnancy among poor, black urban youth were proved wrong. What became depressingly clear is that for these youngsters, "a baby is a tangible achievement in an otherwise dreary and empty future," a rite of passage with historical antecedents. In exploring why so many black teenagers are caught up in the syndrome and its devastating consequences, Dash became more than a working reporter. At times confidant and friend, he has written a sociological report that reaches to the roots of early childbearing patterns.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Growing out of a fine series that reporter Dash did for the Washington Post in 1986, this book focuses on young black parents in a Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Dash's first-hand observations and sustained interviewing over a 17-month period led to his understanding that the pregnancies did not just "happen." Rather, these young adolescents consciously conceived children, for social status, for self-realization, and, Dash concludes, for a host of other complex, underlying reasons. An engrossing work about the nature of a pattern that extends beyond the particular individuals whose hopes and feelings Dash so vividly portrays. For professionals, academics, and lay readers. Suzanne W. Wood, SUNY Coll. of Technology, Alfred
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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