'I know I'm a good mom': Young, low-income mothers' experiences with risk perception, intensive parenting ideology and parenting education programmes

Health, Risk and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 273-289

  Romagnoli, Amy ^a   Wall, Glenda ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

child cognitive development; intensive parenting; risk; risk management; risk perception; teenage motherhood

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDEOLOGY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MOTHER; NORMAL HUMAN; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL CLASS; WELLBEING;

EID: 84859608555     PISSN: 13698575     EISSN: 14698331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13698575.2012.662634     Document Type: Article

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