Dear Diary, I'm Pregnant: Teenagers Talk About Their Pregnancy - Softcover

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9781550374407: Dear Diary, I'm Pregnant: Teenagers Talk About Their Pregnancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550374400 ISBN 13: 9781550374407

Publisher: Annick Pr, 1997

In a collecion of first-person accounts, ten teenagers of various income brackets, cultures, and regions describe their personal experiences of pregnancy, discussing such topics as adoption, abortion, sex, and keeping their baby.

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Review:

Dear Diary, I'm Pregnant will be of great interest to many teens. Not only will it be helpful for those facing an unwanted pregnancy, but it will also increase young people's awareness of the realities and consequences of getting pregnant so young.... The unique way in which the interviews are presented via the teens' actual words, incorrect grammar unchanged, gives the book an authentic tone to which many young people will relate.... Dear Diary, I'm Pregnant covers an important and timely topic, one that must be shared with all young people. Adults, too, will benefit from this book by perhaps becoming more sympathetic and understanding caregivers to teens.--Cheryl Archer, Canadian Children's Book Centre"Canadian Materials, Vol. 4, No. 4" (10/17/1997)

From the Publisher:

A Clearly Important Book for Teenagers Today
"Highly readable and hard to put down, characterized by often-brutal honesty and authenticity, 'Dear Diary' will appeal to all teens.... Recommended." ------The Book Report

"Dear Diary" presents the voices of pregnant teens as they talk about their needs, interests, decisions and choices around motherhood, adoption and abortion. They talk about their lives as daughters, sisters, girlfriends, students, workers and women. They talk about plans for the future as well as their strategies for coping and problems they face in their daily lives.

This book increases our knowledge of the realities of teenage pregnancy and, hopefully, will provide guidance and support to pregnant teens and those in their lives.

It also points out that it is impossible to reflect in ten stories, the full range of experiences and situations faced by pregnant teens: teenagers from all segments of society, all over the world, can and do become pregnant, and each person's circumstances are unique.

"All teens need to read this book. It lays out the experiences a teenager may face and talks to teens the only way they will listen...by allowing their peers to explain it in their own words. The books is a must for every physician's office, clinic and emergency room." --Katherine A. Kelly, R.N., B.S.N., C.E.N., Nursing Director for Emergency Services, Rideout Memorial Hospital, California

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