Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care
Volume 39, Issue 9 , Pages 216-233 , October 2009

Approaching the Adolescent-Headed Family: A Review of Teen Parenting

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 Competing interests: Dr. Lee Beers and Dr. Ruth Hollo have no commercial interests that pose a conflict of interest to the material presented in this article. Dr. Lee Beers is the medical director of the Healthy Generations Program, a multi-disciplinary medical and case-management program for teen parents and their children, at Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC. Dr. Ruth Hollo is the assistant medical director of the Healthy Generations Program at Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC. Both Drs. Beers and Hollo are Assistant Professors of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine.

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