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\"Young<\/a>
Young parents \u2013 portrayed here by volunteer models \u2013 face particular challenges in raising children. (51ÁÔÆæ Photo by Troye Fox<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Raising children is tough enough, but can be especially challenging for young parents who may not have expected to add a baby to their lives.<\/p>\n

The Young Parenthood Program, based in the Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, is focused on helping teens and young adults learn to work together to raise a child \u2013 even if they don\u2019t choose to remain a couple.<\/p>\n

\"Associate<\/a>
Associate Professor Paul Florsheim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThere really isn\u2019t another program that works with young couples to help them with co-parenting,\u201d says Paul Florsheim, associate professor in the Zilber School of Public Health, who developed the program.<\/p>\n

He started the work at the University of Utah, and continued it under a grant from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services\u2019 Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs. His book on the topic, \u201cThe Young Parenthood Program: A Guide to Helping Young Mothers and Fathers Become Effective Co-Parents,\u201d was published this spring by Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

The issue is vital. Four out of ten babies in the U.S. are born to unwed parents, according to U.S. Census data, the highest percentages to minority, economically disadvantaged parents under the age of 25.\u00a0 The very idea of \u201cfamily\u201d has dramatically changed over the past few decades, according to Florsheim.<\/p>\n

Building strong networks, communication skills<\/b><\/p>\n

Research shows that children who are born to young mothers, and grow up without fathers in their lives, are at higher risk for academic and behavioral problems. Getting the fathers involved before the baby is born and helping the young parents learn to manage stress and communicate better may help ease some of these problems, says Florsheim.<\/p>\n

Young parents are at risk for engaging in dysfunctional parenting practices and intimate partner violence, and face additional challenges on top of their own developmental struggles, according to Florsheim.<\/p>\n

\"Florsheim\u2019s<\/a>
Florsheim\u2019s book provides a manual for other organizations working to help young parents, even if they choose not to remain together.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clinical trials have indicated that couples who participated in the Young Parenthood Program demonstrated better relationship skills, lower rates of intimate partner violence, less paternal disengagement, and more positive parenting behavior among young fathers.<\/p>\n

Social workers and other mental health service providers can help young people adapt to becoming parents, he adds. However, many professionals lack formalized training in this area and there are few programs available to give the necessary support to young parents, says Florsheim.<\/p>\n

When grant money was cut halfway through the original research project due to federal budget cuts, Florsheim was determined to find a way to make the program work on a shoestring budget. Two Zilber School doctoral students, Jill Denson and Mary Mazul, helped Florsheim create a partnership with Milwaukee Health Services Incorporated and St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital, then apply for a grant. Now the Lifecourse Initiative for Healthy Families has provided funds to adapt the program so that it can be offered through prenatal clinics. The team will soon launch a new study designed to test a more efficient version of the co-parenting support program.<\/p>\n

Partnering with prenatal clinics was a good fit for the program, Florsheim says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the type of community-based research that I hoped to do when I came to 51ÁÔÆæ to help start the Zilber School of Public Health.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In other recent public health news, city officials are seeing troubling increases in the rate at which babies continue to die in Milwaukee before their first birthday. Especially troubling is the rate at which African American babies die. \u201cBlack infants are still about three times more likely than white infants to die in Milwaukee,\u201d says a June 3 article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.<\/a><\/p>\n

Among the areas that need to be addressed to lower infant mortality rates are reducing “lifecourse stressors” that impact prematurity \u2014 from safe neighborhoods and fatherhood involvement to early childhood education and job preparation programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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