Pregnancy Illinois
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
Giving A Baby Up For Adoption Chicago, Unplanned Pregnancy Illinois, Adoptions Chicago
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When Children Want Children: THE URBAN CRISIS OF TEENAGE CHILDBEARING $19.97 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… |
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In Mrs. Tully’s Room: A Childcare Portrait $12.50 In Mrs. Tully’s Room makes a quiet but powerful case for the pedagogical skill and psychological insight that childcare providers—so often underpaid and undervalued—can bring to their work. It also emphasizes how warm, quasi-familial, even mentoring relationships can develop between childcare providers and their preschool families. (20011104)… |
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Bearing Meaning: The Language of Birth $21.95 A passionate placement of childbearing at the core of human culture and society, Bearing Meaning is that rare combination of warm and genuine experience with profound, important scholarship. From Homer to obstetric texts to Our Bodies, Ourselves, and where the humanities and social sciences overlap and intertwine, Robbie Pfeufer Kahn has crafted a beautiful book that awards the meaning of childbea… |