A study was conducted to investigate the extent to which a semester course in developmental psychology influenced the attitudes that single, young adults had toward parenthood, children, and the inevitability of pregnancy. Subjects were 33 students enrolled in an introductory level course in child psychology at a large university near Boston. All…

The experiences of pregnancy and the early months of motherhood in two samples of post baby-boom cohorts: American and Swedish women born between 1947-1952 were contrasted. Specific aims were to: (1) contrast the experience of pregnancy and the early months of motherhood; (2) explore the idea that the radicalization of both cultures in the late…

This document gives information about teenage pregnancy and related issues. The document is divided into 10 sections and then further subdivided into components. The components contain prose summaries with statistical charts. Section 1, Sexuality Activity and Marriage, provides data on trends in premarital sex and marriage rates for black and…

Described in this report are the extramural activities for fiscal year 1983 of the Center for Research for Mothers and Children (CRMC). The CRMC is designed to advance knowledge about fetal development, pregnancy, and birth; to identify the prerequisites of optimal growth and development through infancy, childhood, and adolescence; and to…

This courseware evaluation rates the "Pregnancy and You" program, developed by Intellectual Software and sold by Career Aids, Inc. The courseware was rated by a team of home economists participating in a network designed to identify and evaluate courseware and disseminate reviews for vocational and technical teachers, media staff, and…

This article discusses a 4-stage model of counseling for college women with unwanted pregnancies who come to a university counseling center. It is based on a crisis model that is both time- and goal-limited. (Author)

This article describes a free contraceptive clinic run by students in cooperation with the Health Department. (PD)

Author attempted to consider anew the unmarried mother as a person, the life in which she comes to us, and the ways in which we might be helpful. (Author/RK)

The author, Director of the Bureau of Health Education, Center for Disease Control, discusses (1) an emerging shift in government policy from treatment to prevention in matters of health; (2) the need for developing a definition of reasonable expectations upon which to base health education efforts; and (3) three general interests at the national…

This report, a condensation of a publication titled "Laboratory Indices of Nutritional Status in Pregnancy," summarizes the effects of normal gestation on certain laboratory indices of nutritional and metabolic status in an effort to provide the clinician with normative data applicable to healthy pregnant women. The report is divided into six…

This report reviews the current state of knowledge regarding laboratory indices of nutritional and metabolic status during normal pregnancy in order to provide normative data with respect to such indices in healthy pregnant women. The report contains seven chapters: Physiologic Adjustments in General; Hematologic Indices; Electrolytes in Normal…

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association on Mental Deficiency (92nd, Boston, 1968).

This report is addressed to Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) sponsors to familiarize them with the issues concerning adolescent pregnancy, highlight innovative approaches in working with young parents, and offer suggestions on how to reach and serve young parents with CETA. The report focuses on the problems of young parents, both…