ABSTRACT
Who we think the teen mother is-what her problems and characteristics are-impacts decisions about the kind of education we think she needs or deserves. Although it is beyond the breadth of this chapter to completely trace the representations of teen mothers in educational literature and discourse, it can be understood that depictions of teen mothers in the education arena mirror the social constructions of unwed and teen mothers identified in chapter one. Furthermore, our assumptions about who the teen mother is mimic the racialized constructions of unwed mothers that continue to yield differential treatment of the teen mother.
