Negotiating motherhood: The struggles of teenage mothers

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 456-464

  Hanna, Barbara ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Child health nursing; Childrearing; Ethnography; Inequality; Motherhood; Poverty; Research; Teenage; Welfare

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFE EVENT; MATERNAL CARE; MOTHER; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WELFARE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HOMELESS YOUTH; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MATERNAL-CHILD NURSING; MOTHERS; NEGOTIATING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WELFARE;

EID: 0035344265     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2001.01774.x     Document Type: Article

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