On Becoming a Teen Mom: Life before Pregnancy, co-authored by Professors Mary Patrice Erdmans and Timothy Black, received the Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award of the Association for Humanist Sociology. The awards committee unanimously selected On Becoming a Teen Mom  out of 70 submissions for its comprehensive methodology, humanist perspective, and demonstration of the relationships between, gender, power, race, and class on outcomes for teen moms. The committee also noted that the book is rigorously written and offers a compelling argument for social activists.