The youngest parents
Subtitle: teenage pregnancy as it shapes lives
By: Robert Coles ; with Robert E. Coles, Daniel A. Coles, and Michael H. Coles ; photographs by Jocelyn Lee and John Moses.
Contributors: Coles, Robert E.; Coles, Daniel A.; Coles, Michael H.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Published by the Center for Documentary Studies in association with W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Teenage parents -- United States -- Case studies; Teenage pregnancy -- United States -- Case studies
Description: Prominent child psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Coles asks us to shed our preconceptions and listen to the compelling voices of young women and men who are soon to become parents, though barely out of childhood themselves.

These teenage parents are black, white, and Hispanic; city dwellers and residents of small towns; rich and poor. From conversations with them, Dr. Coles weaves a subtle yet dramatic narrative that reveals the aspirations and apprehensions of these "youngest parents," whose prospects aren't very promising and whose assumptions aren't always ones that he, or we, share.

Dr. Coles's text is accompanied by photographic essays by two outstanding American photographers. Jocelyn Lee, professor of photography at the Maine College of Art, lived alongside young mothers in Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Nova Scotia, and Texas, exploring their daily lives. John Moses, a pediatrician and photographer, worked for several years with teenage parents in North Carolina, and his pictures show the pride and tenderness they've found in family life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-136).
"A DoubleTake book."