At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones' girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes dramatically.

High school senior Jeff Browning is upset when he learns that his girlfriend is pregnant, and determined not to let a baby ruin his plans to go to college on a debate scholarship, but his feelings change after the baby is born.

In 1937 Ireland, unwed mothers were crimnals and giving birth was a considered a crime. Mary Margaret Joyce is one such child, lucky enough to have survived the harsh, cruel conditions of Certified Industrial School Saint Thomas, in Ballinasloe.

Realistic advice to teenage parents of children. Includes discussion of single parenting and very early marriage.

Offers guidance to staff members of libraries on helping teen parents and their children with literacy skills.

Discusses nutritional, medical, and social aspects of teenage pregnancy and teenage parenthood.

Discusses the increased frequency, causes, problems, and repercussions of teenage pregnancy and parenthood.

"Johanna, Rasheedah, and Rachel each became an unmarried mother while she was still in her teens. With the birth of her baby, each girl's 'ordinary' teen life was over. After Rasheedah's baby was born, all she could do was cry. She didn't know anything about babies. She didn't even dare touch this screaming, demanding stranger. Her depression grew as her dreams of college vanished into thin air. Rachel wanted to be popular. Boys liked her. But...