Focus on the Infant while Understanding Teenage Parents
If you’ve worked with, defended, advocated for or made decisions about at-risk youth, you’ve surely run into the difficult problem of teenagers becoming parents themselves.
As a juvenile judge in Florida, I remember becoming frustrated at the apparent immature, selfish, unrealistic and irresponsible behavior displayed by these young moms and dads in dealing with life’s most important task: raising a child.
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange
Written by: Irene Sullivan, June 18, 2012
Posted: 08/14/2012
