Teenage Mothers Today: What We Know and How It Matters

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 63-69

  Mollborn, Stefanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; life course; socioeconomic disadvantage; teenage childbearing; teenage motherhood

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998631484     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12205     Document Type: Article

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