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Teenage fathers highlight the challenges of being a teen parent, discussing responsibility, economic hardship, and emotional issues involved in parenting at a young age.

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School Library Journal Review

Gr 7 Up‘Five teens share their experiences with parenthood. According to the introduction, these young men are not "deadbeat dads" or "uncaring sex fiends." In fact, all them are taking fatherhood seriously and working to improve their futures and increase their ability to provide for their children. While their efforts are admirable, they all espouse a voice of experience that echoes the adult party line. However wise or true, it is exactly the hardest one to hear, even from other adolescents. Additionally, there is little insight about what might have helped them avoid parenthood or what others might learn from them except for the expected: it's a hard life, don't do it. The narratives do not present a very wide range of experience. The best thing the book does is to point out that fatherhood is about more than having money. However, no strategies for coping with early parenthood are offered. Black-and-white and color photographs appear throughout. A list of helpful organizations follows the text, but most readers won't get that far. Jeanne W. Lindsay's Teen Dads (Morning Glory Pr., 1993) and Kay Beyer's Coping with Teen Parenting (Rosen, 1995) are better titles for assisting young men in this situation.‘Melissa Gross, Beverly Hills Public Library, CA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Gr. 6^-12. Each of these books in The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Library series definitely encourages self-discipline, self-respect, control, and abstinence or contraception. Teen fathers, teenage mothers, and men in their late teens and twenties who are yet to become fathers all give other teens insight into the difficulty of rearing children when you yourself are still a child and the rewards of postponing children until marriage, adulthood, and an established job or career. It's a nicely rounded perspective. The teen moms confide their reason for pregnancy--often to humor the boyfriend or they were going to marry anyway (most aren't married)--and reveal their wish that they had not been sexually active so early. The teen fathers who are featured are unusual; they are still involved with their children, if not the child's mother, and have made the decision to share the responsibility. The successful men--some married, some with girlfriends, some unattached--all emphasize how unprepared they would have been for fatherhood and how much better their lives are because they have focused on future goals rather than immediate gratification. The teen moms and dads all love their children and care for them but realize how different their lives might have been had they not conceived these babies. All have ambitions, but readers will understand that many will have to defy huge odds to reach them. Since kids are becoming sexually active at younger ages, these easy-to-read books (large print, lots of white space and photos, short chapters) should be introduced into your collection as early as parent and community mores will allow. --Frances Bradburn