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Genre: Non-Fiction, Sociology, Family Studies, Public Health
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.5/5)

Book Review:
This book is a powerful and deeply humanizing work of social reportage that tackles the complex issue of teenage pregnancy. Author Joelle Sander presents the unforgettable, first-hand accounts of four generations of women in a single Black family—a young teenager, her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother—who all became mothers in their teens.

Told in their own words, these stories create a poignant multi-generational history that illuminates the powerful cycle of teenage pregnancy and the social forces that perpetuate it. With a foreword by renowned psychiatrist Robert Coles, the book is praised as ''more emotionally potent and hard-hitting than any research study.'' It goes beyond statistics to provide a profound understanding of the personal lives behind a national issue, concluding with recommendations for breaking the cycle. A distinguished and essential contribution to American social literature.