Adolescent Childbearing as Career “Choice”: Perspective From an Ecological Context
作者:
Elizabeth N. Merrick,
期刊:
Journal of Counseling&Development
(WILEY Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 73,
issue 3
页码: 288-295
ISSN:0748-9633
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1002/j.1556-6676.1995.tb01750.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Adolescent childbearing among lower socioeconomic‐status African American girls who are 16 to 21 years of age is a career choice and an alternative, normative life path within African American culture. Career choice is defined here to signify selection of a role through which one implements one's identity and which represents one's life work. This choice is first addressed from the perspective of vocational psychology and is then presented within two models of developmental psychology: the model of female development presented by Chodorow (1978) and Gilligan (1982) and the model of ecological human development by Bronfenbrenner (1977, 1988). These views incorporate a reassessment of the negative consequences of adolescent child‐bearing. Finally, implications for research and practice are sugges
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