Papers by Kevin Cherry
American Journal of Public Health, 2012
Latina adolescent parents are at increased risk for rapid repeat births (second birth ≤ 24 months... more Latina adolescent parents are at increased risk for rapid repeat births (second birth ≤ 24 months after the first), sexually transmitted infections, and negative educational and social outcomes. Although several effective parent-based interventions have been developed to prevent Latino youths' sexual risk taking, little research has explored the development of interventions to prevent repeat births that involve the parents of these adolescents. Existing preventative interventions involving parents suffer from important methodological limitations. Additional research is needed to advance theories of behavior, identify the causal pathways of parental influence, and specify appropriate behavioral targets. Future parent-based interventions to prevent repeat births should target pregnancy intentions, age of partners, contraceptive use, integrated prevention of pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, educational attainment, and future orientations.
Social work in America is at a curious junction: continue down the status quo path of professiona... more Social work in America is at a curious junction: continue down the status quo path of professionalization or embrace an antagonistic and critical, political stance towards global institutions and logics of injustice. This paper defines the junction as a crisis of modernity wherein the institutions and logics reflecting modernity’s primary forms- capitalism and democracy- suffer material and affective setbacks. The New Social Work Left movement is advocated as a useful response to the crisis of modernity, and initial strategies are offered for fostering a New Social Work Left in the United States.
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