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When Children Want Children: The Urban Crisis of Teenage Childbearing

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3.9 out of 5
Based on 36 Ratings and 8 Reviews

Book Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Washington Post reporter, Leon Dash spent a year living in one of the poorest ghettos in Washington, D.C., and a total of seventeen months conducting interviews examining the causes and effects of the ever-lowering age of teenage parents among poor black youths. Dash had expected to find inadequate sex education and lack of birth control to be the root caus... More
Book Information
PublisherBeech Tree Books
BindingHardcover (3 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages270
ISBN-100688069576
ISBN-13978-0688069575
Publication Date01/1989
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About Leon Dash (Author) : Leon Dash is a published author. Published credits of Leon Dash include When Children Want Children: The Urban Crisis of Teenage Childbearing.
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