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These teenage parents are black, white, and Hispanic; city dwellers and residents of small towns. From conversations with these teenagers, 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 those he, or we, share. Young mothers don't have an easy time ahead of them, but many pregnant teens believe that the babies they carry will lead lives very different from their own, that their babies may find the success that eludes them and may escape the limitations they've suffered. Dr. Coles finds that the fathers' confusion and, sometimes, resentment give way to a deep longing for respect and a desire for a way out of lives limited by poverty and poor education. Dr. Coles's text is accompanied by photographic essays by two outstanding American photographers. Jocelyn Lee, a photographer based in Boston, lived intimately with young families in Massachusetts where she explored the daily lives of young parents. John Moses, a pediatrician and photographer, worked for several years with teenage parents in rural North Carolina, and his pictures show the pride and tenderness they've found in family life.
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出版社周刊评论
Neither a celebration nor a condemnation, Pulitzer Prize-winning child psychiatrist Coles's poignant documentary is based on interviews conducted between 1987 and 1990 with pregnant teenagers and teen mothers and their boyfriends or husbands. Whatever their backgroundblack, white or Hispanic; inner-city or rural; student or dropoutmost of the expectant and new mothers believed that having a child would enhance their lives. In interviews and periodic follow-ups, Coles lets them tell their own stories, framing the empathetic interviews with determinedly nonjudgmental personal portraits that highlight his subjects' strengths and hopes while revealing their assumptions, evasions and anxieties. Coles's three sonstwo physicians and one medical studentassisted with the fieldwork, covering a wide terrain from the ghettos of Boston and Washington, D.C., to Appalachia and California. The accompanying 80 b&w photographs by Moses, a North Carolina pediatrician, and Boston photographer Lee convey admiration for these young mothers and for pressured couples struggling with enormous challenges, yet one could also read these images as pictures of tragedies. Though it lacks a unified point of view, this report throws a major societal problem into startling focus. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
An intermittently arresting, consistently disconcerting portrait of teen parents and expectant parents in America today. Harvard child psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prizewinning author Coles (The Moral Intelligence of Children, 1997, etc.), along with his three adult sons, spent several years interviewing dozens of teen parents of different races and classes in cities and small towns. Despite the divergence among the interviewees, a number of patterns emerge, among them the distrust between females and males. This is most apparent and unsettling among young blacks. The girls view the males as worthless beyond their powers to create a baby, and the males sense that the girls exploit them solely for this purpose. As one young man tells Coles, ``The girls you're going out with, they don't really respect you, they just don't. Why? They have something in mind for themselves, that's what: to get themselves pregnant, it's all they want from us, the juice . . . when it's over they want you . . . out of their lives.'' Another common link among most of the interviewees is their lack of success in school. Most of these young parents hated the time they spent there and look forward to having a ``legitimate'' excuse to end their schooling. Parenting a baby gives these teens a raison d'être; they sincerely love having something they can call their own. While none of these parents wants children for the sake of securing welfare, welfare is clearly an indispensable part of their lives. When Coles asks one young mother if welfare reform can break the cycle of poverty and dependence, she considers the difficulties of finding work and child care and says, ``You take welfare from us, we got nothing.'' A disturbing if inconclusive study, memorable for the voices of these young people. (80 b&w photos, not seen)
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Coles is a prolific, Pulitzer Prize^-winning author and a child psychiatrist renowned for his open-minded and compassionate approach to studying the inner lives of children and adolescents. His newest book is a striking and revelatory set of verbal and photographic portraits of teenage parents. Coles and his sons conducted long, intensive conversations with adolescent parents of diverse ethnicity and geographical location, and the direction, emotions, and content of these exchanges stunned Coles, who struggled not to "observe with dismay" but to learn from these frank and generous young people. As Coles brings young fathers and mothers vividly to life, the stark humanity of their perceptions and circumstances emerges with such power that all preconceived and oversimplified attitudes about teenage pregnancy and parenthood are called into question. Young men explain that fathering a child is expected and respected. A 15-year-old mother says she was "born into trouble" and wanted to keep her baby because "it's all she's got." Another young mother explains that through her daughter, she has a "second chance"; another declares that her "purpose in life" is to raise her son "so he'll be different than the men I've known." Discussions of parenthood evolve into musings on racism, welfare, school, religion, work, love, loyalty, and the meaning of life. Coles doesn't try to dispel the ambiguities inherent in these conversations, nor do the photographs of Jocelyn Lee and John Moses. Their evocative subjects hold our gaze, commanding respect and empathy even as they arouse deep concern. --Donna Seaman
Choice 评论
This book is a two-part documentary on the lives of pregnant and parenting teenagers. In part 1, Coles, eminent child psychiatrist and writer, presents the results of qualitative research he and his two sons conducted with young women and men in urban Boston and Washington, D.C., and in rural North Carolina. Reported in narrative form, these are the teenagers' experiences, hopes, successes, and fears told in their own voices with insight and wisdom. The second part of the book tells their stories in pictures taken by two photographers. Because of the candor of both interviews and pictures, readers learn much from the teenagers themselves, and from the adults studying them. Highly recommended for readers of all levels. B. A. Pine; University of Connecticut
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
The result of Coles's extensive interviews throughout the country, this work offers glimpses into the lives and minds of teenage parents. Coles, the respected psychiatrist, professor, and author, collaborated with his three sons, all doctors, to research teenage pregnancy. Their profiles of teens living under unique pressures are enhanced by two photographic essays. The resulting book is not a comprehensive study but a snapshot that will help readers understand the lifestyle, motivation, and daily lives of adolescents, both male and female, who are themselves parents. Recommended for public and academic libraries.Kay L. Brodie, Chesapeake Coll. Lib., Wye Mills., Md. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
目录
Introduction | p. 1 |
1. Watching | p. 11 |
2. Waiting | p. 37 |
3. Welfare | p. 55 |
4. Fast-Time | p. 83 |
5. Hit and Run | p. 99 |
6. Ups and Downs | p. 107 |
7. No Caution to Throm to the Winds | p. 113 |
8. Second Chance | p. 123 |
Suggested Reading | p. 133 |
Photographs | p. 139 |
Photographs | p. 183 |