Instead, he recommended that she attend a school for teen-age mothers.

The book's most important subject is births to teen-age mothers.

The bad news, however, is that we spend more than $5.7 billion a year on families begun by teen-age mothers.

And though violence is part of their lives, they are likely to be teen-age mothers struggling to get by.

The answer is that we do very little for teen-age mothers.

But Washington already spends $25 billion a year for families whose first child was born to a teen-age mother.

Many are teen-age mothers who have never held a job.

For example, he said, society knows very little about what eventually happens to teen-age mothers.

To those children, the mere fact that they were born to teen-age mothers will influence the rest of their lives.

At first, the teen-age mother insisted she could raise the child herself.