Research Areas
Teenage Pregnancy
Teenage sexuality, pregnancy, and parenting continue to be major social problems, and a focus of ICYFP's research efforts. Lorraine Klerman, director of the ICYFP, is a recognized expert in this area and is frequently called upon to consult with agencies supporting service or research programs focusing on this population.
From 1982 to 1984, Professor Klerman and other Heller School faculty conducted a study, Developing Comprehensive Services for Teenage Parents, for the Adolescent Family Life (AFL) program.
A recently completed study, Parents for the First Time, involved four sites in a comparison of adolescent and older mothers on parenting practices and potential and actual child neglect.
The AFL program has just funded the Heller School to review and summarize the results from all of its research grants, to suggest the implications of the results for the AFL's demonstration prevention and care programs, and to make suggestions for the future direction of the AFL research program