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10 “Doomed,” Newsday, 26 February 1995, p. A33; Claudia Morain, “A Freedom Fighter Packs for Washington,” Los Angeles Times, 8 March 1993, p. E1; James Golds-borough, “The Unwed Birthrate,” San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 1994, p. B11; Jean Bethke Elshtain, “The Lost Children,” New Republic, 21 October 1996, pp. 30-36; Stephen Caldas, “Teen Pregnancy,” Phi Beta Kappan75 (January 1994): 402.

11 Alan Guttmacher Institute, Sex and America’s Teenagers (New York: Guttmacher Institute, 1994). See also Kristin Luker, Dubious Conceptions (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996). On my selection and use of statistics see note 2 in the Introduction.

12 Elizabeth Gleick et al., “Special Report: The Baby Trap,” People, 24 October 1994, pp. 38-55; Joan Moore, Going Down to the Barrio (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991), p. 114; Deborah Rhode, “Adolescent Pregnancy and Public Policy,” in Lawson and Rhode, eds., Politics ofPregnancy,pp. 301—26; Arline Geronimus, “Mothers of Invention,” Nation, 12 August 1996, pp. 6-7; Arline Geronimus and Sanders Korenman, “The Socioeconomic Costs of Teenage Childbearing,” Demography30 (May 1993): 281-91; Diane Scott-Jones and Sherry Turner, “The Impact of Adolescent Childbearing on Education Attainment and Income of Black Females,” Youth and Society 22 (1990): 35-53; Frank Furstenberg et al., Adolescent Mothers in Later Life (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987); Ann Phoenix, Young Mothers (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1991); Constance W. Williams, Black Teenage Mothers (Lexington, MA: Heath, 1991); Dawn Upchurch and James McCarthy, “The Timing of a First Birth and High School Completion,” American Sociological Review 25 (1990): 224-34; Mike Males, Scapegoat Generation (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1996); Emory Thomas, “Is Pregnancy a Rational Choice for Poor Teenagers?” Wall StreetJournal,18 January 1996, pp. B1, 12.

13 Ethan Bronner, “Lawsuit on Sex Bias by 2 Mothers, 17,” New York Times, 6 August 1998, p. A14.

14 Sally Macintyre and Sarah Cunningham-Burley, “Teenage Pregnancy as a Social Problem,” in Lawson and Rhode, eds., Politics of Pregnancy, pp. 59-73; Arline Geronimus, “Clashes of Common Sense: On the Previous Child Care Experience of Teenage Mothers-to-Be,” Human Organization 51 (1992): 318—29; Congressional Budget Office, Sources of Support for Adolescent Mothers, Washington, DC, 1990. See also Judy Jones, “Babies of Teenagers Fare Well in Early Years,” TheIndependent, 12 May 1992, p. 4; Shawn Hubler, “Some Teens Measure Success by Motherhood,” Los Angeles Times, 12 November 1995, pp. El, 2.

15 Diane E. Eyer, Mother-Infant Bonding (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), ch.3.

16 Geronimus, “Mothers of Invention”; Luker, Dubious Conceptions; Males, Scapegoat Generation.

17 Statistics: Luker, Dubious Conceptions; Pat Wingert, “The Battle over Falling Birthrates,” Newsweek, 11 May 1998, p. 40.

18 Elshtain, “Lost Children.”

19 Unsigned editorial, “Legislating Chastity,” Nation, 20 March 1995, p. 365 (on “illegitimacy ratio”); William Eaton, “Shalala Revives ‘Murphy Brown’ Pregnancy Issue,” Los Angeles Times, 15 July 1994, p. A1 (contains Shalala quote); Richard Wolf, “States Zero in on Out-of-Wedlock Births,” USA Today, 21 November 1997, p. A4.

20 Joe Klein, “The Out-of-Wedlock Question,” Newsweek, 13 December 1993, p. 37; David Broder, “Illegitimacy: An Unprecedented National Catastrophe,” Washington Post, 22 June 1994, p. A21; Richard Cohen, “Dealing with Illegitimacy,” Washington Post, 23 November 1993, p. A21. Another example: Charles Krauthammer, “Subsidized Illegitimacy,” Washington Post, 19 November 1993, p. A29.

21 Timothy Biblarz and Adrian Raftery, “Family-Structure and Social-Mobility,” SocialForces75 (1997): 1319—41; Stephanie Coontz, “The American Family and the Nostalgia Trap,” Phi Delta Kappan76 (1995): K1—20; Constance Ahrons, TheGood Divorce (New York: HarperCollins, 1995); Susan Golombok et al., “Children Raised in Fatherless Families from Infancy,” Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry