Product Description: This book addresses the discrepancy between efforts to prevent adolescent pregnancy and support of adolescent parenthood, which is arguably America's greatest unrecognized public health crisis. It proposes a feasible legal procedure as the basis for ensuring that adolescents' babies have competent parents with the resources and environments they need...read more

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Product Description: Licensing Parents addresses the relationship between poverty, unemployment, and other socio-economic issues to competent parenting in a unique and creative manner. Examines why the current generation of children and youth is the first in our nation's history to be less well-off--psychologically, socially, and morally--than their parents were at the same age...read more

Product Description: Westman reviews the history of professional approaches and reframes the concept of learning disabilities, developing a general theory of living systems as an analytic framework. He considers both the external influences on children from society and the internal influences of the central nervous sys...read more