Abstract:There is national concern about teenage pregnancy and children parenting children in the U.S. There is also an established link between delinquent parents and future delinquent offspring. Parenting skills training for youth in trouble has been considered as one way of addressing this complex problem. Yet there have been few studies of the way troubled and troublesome adolescents see themselves as parents. In this study, juveniles being held in a detention center were observed in a small group setting on a week… Show more
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