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Poverty and Adolescent Childbearing: The Dangers of the ‘Half Empty Glass’ Perspective |
It is difficult to imagine how impoverished our prospects would be, how hopeless the future would look, if we could not dream of a better existence for our children.
—Csikszentmihalyi (1993)
Dr. Musick provides a foreboding landscape portrait of parenting for adolescent mothers and their children who experience poverty. Extending the metaphor, Musick’s topography for these adolescents characteristically has more gullies, valleys, and steep mountains than plateaus, flatland or, even gently rolling hills. In this commentary we focus on two themes that appear to undergird Musick’s portrayal ...
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