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Download full textDalla, Rochelle L.; Gamble, Wendy C. – 1996
This study examined teenage parenting among Native Americans, focusing on the support received from grandmothers. The sample was comprised of 15 subjects living on a Navajo reservation: 8 adolescent mothers between 16 to 19 years--most with one child and enrolled either in high school or in an alternative education program; and seven women…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Children, Births to Single Women, Child Rearing
Peer reviewedDalla, Rochelle L.; Gamble, Wendy C. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2001
A study examined attitudes towards teenage motherhood among 25 Navajo reservation residents, including 8 teenage mothers, their mothers, and 4 teenage fathers. Findings indicate that teenage parenting was discouraged despite the matrilineal nature of Navajo society, men were frequently absent from family life, single maternity was preferable to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Births to Single Women, Cohabitation, Community Attitudes
