Black Girls and Adolescents: Facing the Challenges: Facing the Challenges

This one-of-a kind book challenges the current thinking about black girls to show how America has failed them—and what can be done to make their lives better.

• Provides the first research work on this topic

• Covers health (physical, mental, and sexual), education, crime/criminal justice, and parenting as they affect black teen girls and adolescents

• Features contributors from a broad range of fields, including psychology, biology, criminal justice, sociology, spirituality, law, medicine, and popular culture

• Examines characteristics of at-risk girls and the lure of the "bad girl" image

• Clarifies what parents/mentors and others can do to help these girls and teens live happy, healthy, more rewarding lives