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- Title
‘Someone of Your Own to Love’: Experiences of Being Looked After as Influences on Teenage Pregnancy.
- Authors
Knight, Abigail; Chase, Elaine; Aggleton, Peter
- Abstract
Previous research has shown that children and young people who are looked after are vulnerable to poor life outcomes, including early pregnancy. This paper examines how experiences of being looked after may contribute to teenage pregnancy. Using in-depth interviews, data were collected from 63 young people recently looked after who are aged 15-24 and 78 professionals, across four research sites. The young people reported feelings of loneliness, rejection, stigma and not being able to trust others, emotions which seriously influenced their decisions about becoming parents. The findings suggest that such young people may benefit from a greater degree of emotional and practical support throughout their lives in care.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; TEENAGE pregnancy -- Risk factors; CHILD services; CHILD welfare; TEENAGE mothers; EMOTIONS in adolescence; ADOLESCENT psychology research; HEALTH behavior in adolescence
- Publication
Children & Society, 2006, Vol 20, Issue 5, p391
- ISSN
0951-0605
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1099-0860.2006.00014.x