The effect of ‘risk-thinking’ on the contemporary construction of teenage motherhood

摘要: In Britain over the past 12 years, despite normalising of sex and reproduction outside marriage, contrary to evidence that there are fewer teenage parents than in past, parenthood has become amplified as a social problem. The existence such paradox suggests this problematisation captured number significant political dynamics anxieties, particular, co-existence widespread concern with disorder moral decline recognition forms ordering have an alienating rather cohering effect. This paper explores: how problem pregnancy been both redefined; role public health discourse de-moralising problem; expanding notions harm child; construction mother lacking rational agency; her child threat. Through engagement critiques policy, risk...