Pregnant futures : barriers to employment, education and training amongst pregnant and parenting adolescents / prepared by the Pregnant Futures Research Team: Jo Milne-Home with Aileen Power, Bronwyn Dennis

Bib ID:
1379313
Format:
Book
Description:
  • Canberra : Australian Govt. Pub. Service, 1996
  • xi, 196 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
0644472928
Full contents:
  • Part 1. Pregnant futures : barriers to employment, education and training
  • Part 2. Demographic profile of youth in Western Sydney, national consultation with service providers, the western Sydney project among pregnant and parenting youth.
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Structure of the report
  • 1.2. The language: framing adolescent pregnancy and motherhood
  • 1.2.1. 'At risk'
  • 1.2.2. The dangers of dealing with 'adolescents' as a homogenous group
  • 1.2.3. Steretypes and negative images
  • 1.2.4. Media attention
  • 2. Theories, research and programs for pregnant and parenting adolescents
  • 2.1. Youth culture and adolescent pregnancy
  • 2.1.1. Gender and deviance
  • 2.2. Theoretical foundations of adolescent development
  • 2.2.1. Feminist critiques of adolescence
  • 2.2.2. Adolescent cognition and egocentric thought
  • 2.2.3. A review of the literature on programs and research: adolescent pregnancy and motherhood
  • 2.3. Australian studies of teenage pregnancy and motherhood
  • 6. The Western Sydney Project: questionnaires and workshops
  • 6.1. The discrimination questionnaire
  • 6.1.1. Development of the questionnaire
  • 6.1.2. Profiling participants and their responses
  • 6.1.3. Education and employment background
  • 6.1.4. Experiences of employment
  • 6.1.5. Experiences with services
  • 6.1.6. Respondents' attitudes and beliefs about gender and equity issues
  • 6.2. Workshops 1 and 2. 6.2.1. A portrait of workshop participants in the Western Sydney Project
  • 6.2.2. Workshop 1
  • 6.2.3. Workshop 2: 2020 vision workshop.xported to Canada.
  • 5. Service provision for pregnant adolescents and young mothers: current approaches and programs
  • 5.1. Demographic profile of service providers
  • 5.1.1. Gender
  • 5.1.2. Age distribution
  • 5.1.3. Marital status
  • 5.1.4. Children
  • 5.1.5. Ethnic membership
  • 5.1.6. Languages spoken
  • 5.1.7. Religion
  • 5.1.8. School type
  • 5.1.9. Tertiary education
  • 5.1.10. Employers
  • 5.1.11. Course work qualifications of service providers
  • 5.1.12. Directions for further education indicated by service providers
  • 5.1.13. Experience in the filed of pregnant and parenting adolescents
  • 5.2. Priorities for service provision
  • 5.2.1. Girls 'at risk'
  • 5.2.2. Structural support services
  • 5.2.3. Health and community services
  • 5.2.4. Education
  • 5.2.5. Coordinated services
  • 5.2.6. Youth services
  • 5.3. Conclusion
  • 4. Western Sydney
  • 4.1. Defining Western Sydney
  • 4.2. Problems with data aggregations
  • 4.3. Youth data: Australia, NSW and Sydney
  • 4.3.1. Trends in youth data 1971-1991
  • 4.4. Ethnic profile of Western Sydney
  • 4.4.1. Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
  • 4.4.2. New immigrations and non-English speaking population
  • 4.5. Education, employment and training
  • 4.5.1. Retention rates of Australian girls and boys to Year 12, 1984-1994
  • 4.5.2. Brief profile of education in Western Sydney
  • 4.5.3. School-leaving age and retention rates in Greater Western Sydney
  • 4.5.4. Students from non-English speaking backgrounds in Western Sydney
  • 4.5.5. Employment distribution
  • 4.6. Social welfare
  • 4.7. Income distribution and youth in Western Sydney
  • 4.8. Fertility rates
  • 4.8.1. Parent status of children born to adolescent mothers
  • 4.8.2. Tredns in adolescent confinments in Australia
  • 4.8.3. Trends in adolescent confinements in Western Sydney
  • 4.8.4. Social class variation in adolescent confinements
  • 4.9. Termination statistics
  • 2.3.1. School culture and attitudues towards careers and the future
  • 2.3.2. Australian studies relating to teenage pregnancy and motherhood, education and employment
  • 2.4. Programs
  • 2.4.1. Jobs, Education and Training (JET) program for teenage sole parent pension clients
  • 2.4.2. Programs offered in the United States
  • 2.4.3. Social support and support services
  • 2.4.4. The role of schools and the need for collaboration between government departments
  • 2.4.5. Comprehensive programs
  • 2.4.6. Integrated versus free-standing programs
  • 3. Recommendation and policy implications
  • 3.1. Catering for girls 'at risk'
  • 3.2. Recommendation for all agencies
  • 3.2.1. Structural support services
  • 3.2.2. Removing psychological and emotional barriers
  • 3.2.3. Best practice for service provisions
  • 3.3. Recommendations for particular agencies
  • 3.3.1. Health and community services
  • 3.3.2. Education
  • 3.3.3. Media
  • 3.3.4. Research: theoretical frameworks for incorporating mothers as citizens
  • Part 2. Pregnant futures: the Western Sydney Project: demographic profile of youth in Western Sydney
Notes:
  • A women's Employment, Education and Training Advisory Group Project.
  • Bibliography : p. 181-196.
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