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Training Materials This implementation manual is intended to express the program philosophy, assist with selection of facilitators and families, help with implementation of the weekly sessions, and serve as a measure for success for the Nurturing Program for Teenage Parents and Their Families, which enhances teenagers' abilities to care for themselves, others, and their children in functional, nonabusive ways. In addition to being teenagers and parents, teen parents are usually also encumbered with the roles of daughter or son, and perhaps wife or husband. The art of raising healthy children is discussed using…
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Journal Article This State Legislative Report examines the special problems associated with establishing paternity and collecting child support from teenage parents. The report reviews public policy options for legislators and is divided into three major sections: establishing paternity, child support enforcement, and state legislative policy and program responses. Paternity establishment and child support enforcement are particularly difficult with the teenage population. Establishing paternity can be a problem because teenage mothers often refuse to cooperate with state child support enforcement personnel…
