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When Mari Gallion, an unmarried tour guide in Alaska, discovered she was pregnant, she immediately made the decision to have the baby. What she never expected was the hypocrisy of the movement that condemns a woman's right to choose while witholding information that could empower single women who had chosen to continue with unplanned pregnancies. In response, Gallion set out to write a guide that offers unconditional assistance to the women who have chosen to take the unorthodox path of pregnancy without a partner. The Single Woman's Guide to a Happy Pregnancy is Gallion's gift to those women who find themselves pregnant and going it alone. It is a positive, affirming, and sometimes humorous how-to that covers all the bases: staying positive, getting organized, preventing depression, and finding the agencies that offer assistance. The author also gives valuable advice about living circumstances, money management, and even what mothers need to acquire before the baby comes. The Single Woman's Guide to a Happy Pregnancy is not a book about morning sickness and blotchy skin. Instead, it is about well-being, attaining power through knowledge, and planning ahead..
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Jayne Schooler offers proven advice for parents and families of unwed mothers and fathers .
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The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy found that 34 percent of young women become pregnant at least once before they reach the age of 20. The Truth About Sexual Behavior and Unplanned Pregnancy is a trusted source teens can turn to for straightforward information about everything from contraception to the media's portrayal of sex. Providing a clear picture of teenage sexual behavior and its consequences, this book offers sound advice to teenagers and encourages discussion with parents and peers. Teens' accounts and question-and-answer segments provide a real-life perspective, and charts and graphs add a visually stimulating element to this important reference. Topics include conception, pregnancy, and childbirth; dating; sex and the media; prevention of pregnancy; and sexual orientation..
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At thirty-nine, movie critic Mary Pols knew she wanted to have a baby. But never—not in a million years—on her own. To take on the physical, emotional, and financial challenges of motherhood without a perfect soul mate/husband would be absurd, kind of like not bothering to use a condom during a one-night stand with an adorable but jobless guy ten years her junior.

Pols spends the ensuing weeks despairing over everything, from the financial nightmare of single motherhood to the end of her hopes for a traditional life. Not the least of her worries is finding the right way to drop the bombshell on loved ones, including her five siblings and eighty-four-year-old father, who has a German temper and an Irish Catholic attitude toward babies out of wedlock. Yet faced with the frightening, lonely truth that this might be her only chance at motherhood, she plunges ahead with the pregnancy and an Odd Couple version of a co-parenting relationship that looks like one more disaster in a long line of romantic disappointments. But even as she tries to give her son’s young father a radical makeover, she realizes that his devotion and love for their child matters more than his spotty résumé or his inability to remember to put oil in the car. With humor, insight, and compelling honesty, Pols reveals what it means to compromise in the name of love and to find joy in an accidental life, suddenly brimming with purpose.

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I Think I'm Pregnant What Should I Do???? Educate yourself. Make a plan. Take action.

Okay, you're pregnant and this is now how you planned things. It was a surprise, an accident, and unexpected event and you just don't know what to do.

The Unplanned Pregnancy Book for Teens and College Students is a helpful guide written to provide you with information and resources that can help you come to terms with how to handle your unplanned pregnancy. This book is not written to influence you or to change your mind about how you should deal with your unplanned pregnancy. This book aims to education. Only you and the people who are helping you with your current situation can help you determine what is the best thing for you to do. Whether you plan to continue your pregnancy and become a parent, decide to terminate your pregnancy, or if you decide that adoption is the best option for you, The Unplanned Pregnancy Book for Teens and College Students is here to help you.

Special features include prenatal care guide, new baby item check list, DNA paternity testing information, listing of universities that offer family housing, information about programs such as WIC, Food Stamps, and Medicaid for low income mothers, information about mandatory waiting laws and parental consent and notification laws, information about types of adoption, birth control guide, web links and other valuable resources. Also includes real life stories from women who faced unplanned pregnancies..
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Suburbia has twisted the American dream into a nightmare The United States now has the most rapes, assaults, murders, and serial killings per capita, by a wide margin, than any other first-world nation. It's a Sprawl World After All is the first book to link America's increase in violence and the corresponding breakdown in society with the post-World War II development of suburban sprawl.

Without small towns to bring people together, the unplanned growth of sprawl has left Americans isolated, alienated, and afraid of the strangers that surround them. Suburbia has substituted cars for conversation, malls for main streets, and the artificial community of television for authentic social interaction. This has resulted in dramatically negative impacts on US society, including:

The transformation of America's community-oriented small-town sensibilities into an isolated society of strangers burdened by isolation, loneliness, and depression
The emergence of a culture of incivility characterized by extreme individualism and a callous disregard for others
Levels of violence so rampant as to be proclaimed "epidemic" by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Advocating that urgent attention be paid to managing development by emulating the smart growth examples of European cities, the book's final section offers readers tools to rebuild community in their lives as well as in society at large. It offers practical solutions that can improve everyone's quality of life.

Provocative and thoughtful, It's a Sprawl World After All also includes a helpful resource listing of organizations committed to making communities more sustainable.

Douglas E. Morris is a freelance writer whose 14 years of experience living outside the United States in a number of safe urban areas has given him unique insights into cross-cultural urban comparisons. He has published numerous articles on the topic in the last seven years.

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Ready to build the career you want with a plan that changes with you? Whether you are starting a new venture or searching for more challenge and fulfillment in your current profession, this interactive journal will help you explore critical decisions, motivate you to create new opportunities, and guide you through career transitions..
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How do cities plan for the unplanned? Do cities plan for recovery from every possible sudden shock? How does one prepare a plan for the recovery after a tragedy, like the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York? The book discovers the systematic features that contribute to the success of planning institutions. In cities filled with uncertainty and complexity, planning institutions effectively tackle unexpected and sudden change by relying on the old and the familiar, rather than the new and the innovative.
The author argues that planning programs institutions were successful because they were bureaucratic, and relied on standardized routines, rigorous sets of established regimes, familiar programs, and institutionalized hierarchies. Also contrary to popular perception, neither the leaders at the top of the institutions nor those workers at the grassroots level were the most important in the implementation of such routines. The key actors were middle managers, because they knew the institutionalstructures inside out, what the routines were and how to use them, and were successful go-betweens between national governments and grassroots community groups.

Case studies from Mexico City, Los Angeles and New York provide a deeper understanding of urban planning processes. The case studies reveal that systematic institutional analysis helps us understand what works in planning, and why. They also demonstrate the manner in which institutional routines serve as powerful and effective tools for addressing novel situations..
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