Adolescent Girls, Urban Society and Family Life : An Analytical Study/Kalpna Gupta. New Delhi, Sunrise Pub., 2006, xvii, 195 p., tables, figs., ISBN 81-87365-32-3.

    Contents: Foreword. 1. Introduction. 2. Socio-economic background of adolescent girls. 3. Concept of family education. 4. Projection of a new girl. 5. Changing face of the family. 6. Status of adolescent girls in society. Bibliography. Appendices. Index.

    "This book covers vary emphatically the process of growing from child hood to adolescence and finally to maturity and certain biological, emotional and social aspects of the adolescent's personality and keeping this in mind, the author has aptly focused on the specified objectives of eliciting the views of the adolescents on their life style, their opinion differences in relations to their socio-economic status and also to try and pin point the differences among the working and non-working back grounds in today's context.

    The study reveals that furthering education to a post graduate level, to be ready for employment for some measure of economic independence, and to be able to choose one's life partner sensibly, would be important in achieving a sense of future fulfillment. Also a positive change has been seen in the acceptance of inter-caste marriages and social equality, based on the facts presented by the study, it is hoped that the book will furnish an in-depth thought provoking spectrum of data to be useful to health planners and field workers and academicians in health field." (jacket)

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