title: Informal adoption among black adolescent mothers.
abstract: While adolescent decision-making about adoption and parenting is an area of growing concern for researchers, few studies have been made of informal adoption. This paper examines the practice of informal adoption as a response to out-of-wedlock pregnancy among 54 black urban adolescent females.
authors.affiliation: Riverside Medical Center, Minneapolis.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sandven
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Resnick
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000300:Adoption; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007086:Illegitimacy / Q000523:psychology*; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000523:psychology*; D012923:Social Class; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support; D014505:Urban Population