INTERGENERATIONAL ETHICS OF CARING FOR ADOLESCENT MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN

This study examined the teenager's transition to mothering as shaped b y family caregiving practices. Conflict over infant caregiving charact erized families who demonstrated an ethic of adversarial care. In cont rast, families with a responsive ethic attended to the mother and baby without taking over and shared caregiving in a high fluid manner. In articulating the experiential worlds of family members, this study des cribes their situated possibilities as the basis for developing clinic al practices that promote responsive caregiving.