Helping teenage parents: Use of age-paced parent education newsletters.

Although many school systems have developed programs to meet the special needs of school age parents, the norm continues to be school dropout for adolescent girls who become pregnant. Because these girls and their children are at high risk for problems, Cooperative Extension throughout the United States has created instructional material specifically aimed at preventing psychosocial and developmental problems among an audience of very young mothers. This article describes the considerations and formats of newsletters for young parents, originating in California and Washington through Cooperative Extension in those states.