Exam 14: Parenting When Unmarried

The parents of pregnant teens have often been less __________ than have been parents of teens who do not get pregnant.

Pregnant teen mothers who made positive changes in their behavior when they became pregnant gained support from all of the following sources EXCEPT

Describe and illustrate four ways in which fathers benefit from staying involved in their children's lives.

Parenting groups for low-income unmarried parents increase parenting skills but have not improved parents' abilities to work together.

A national program that helps teens to parent their children

Even when single mothers have known adversity,those mothers who have ________ _____________ show effective parenting behaviors.

Even when girls are headed in the direction of adolescent parenthood,their parents' _______________________ helped girls stay in school and avoid pregnancy.

Social supports helping children of teen parents cope with negative life events include all of the following EXCEPT

Describe four characteristics of the transition to parenthood of a sample of young African American teen mothers including at least two of the sources of support for them in the process.

All of the following statements describe the average unmarried mother EXCEPT

Families of adolescent fathers are less likely to

Give three supportive factors in helping teen fathers to become effective caregivers: __________.

Children of unmarried parents are reported to have all of the following characteristics EXCEPT

A teen mother's ability to provide postnatal __________ in the child's life was an important predictor of the child's reading skills and socioemotional skills.

In single mother households,across all ethnic groups,the number of ________ changes predicts children's behavior problems.

Teen fathers are in need of parenting programs because they find babies' crying and distress difficult to deal with.

Single women who have children alone by choice ask themselves a variety of questions including whether they have financial resources and social supports to raise children.

When Single Mothers by Choice reduce their level of __________________,their children are similar in behavior to children living in two-parent families.

The initial reactions of grandmothers and pregnant teen mothers to the pregnancy are negative.

Describe and illustrate four factors that increase the likelihood that adolescents will become teen mothers and teen fathers.