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The teen mommy track.


 Prevailing analyses of adolescent pregnancy in the US have been limited by their failure to consider the psychology of adolescence, underclass cultural norms, and the role of family structure in shaping young people's expectations about the future. In the mainstream culture, the passage to maturity is symbolized by graduation from college, independent living, and financial self-sufficiency. For underclass youth, having a baby is such a symbol. Fatherless families and grandmothers raising their daughters' babies are so prevalent, they have become a cultural norm in low-income urban communities. Social commentators who attribute adolescent pregnancy to low self-esteem, ignorance about birth control, and welfare dependency erroneously assume that youth raised in poverty adhere to the middle-class life script. Given that teenage childbearing has become the norm for a significant number of youth, it seems more instructive to ask what motivates those who deviate from this norm. Several studies have found that a close relationship with a residential father or long-term stepfather differentiates teenagers who postpone pregnancy from their counterparts.
