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Young parents can be desperately in need of financial help and quality childcare. Karen Faux looks at projects which provide practical help and advice to teenage parents Eighteen months ago Hannah More's* life was defined by a 'crushing sense of isolation and loneliness'. After having her baby at the age of 17, she had delayed going on to take her intended A levels in psychology, biology and English literature and abandoned all hope of going on to study psychology at university.

Eighteen months ago Hannah More's* life was defined by a 'crushing sense of isolation and loneliness'. After having her baby at the age of 17, she had delayed going on to take her intended A levels in psychology, biology and English literature and abandoned all hope of going on to study psychology at university.

'I felt my life had come to a complete full stop,' she says.

'I had worked hard at school because I wanted to go to university to get a job in a branch of psychology, but once I had the baby the practical and financial problems of getting back to studying seemed overwhelming.'

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