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From The New Republic:
"In nearly 400 fast-paced pages of wonderfully evocative prose, much of it in the words of her six subjects, all teen mothers, Lipper has actually conveyed the social and personal history of a growing class of Americans for whom there is little help and less hope. But this class of people has inner lives, and this is what Lipper is so deft at communicating...Lipper has mastered all of the relevant data. She has also mastered the scholarship on teens, on teen families, on children of these families, on the families from which these mothers come. And, in my experience, a first: She cites the relevant websites than can inform and help. Lipper is not only a filmmaker and writer. She is a photographer, and the book's chapters are interspersed with probingly gentle photographs of the dramatis personae." - Martin Peretz

Read the entire article: Rust Proof by Martin Peretz

From The New York Times:
"Lipper builds a detailed case against the systems -- schools, welfare, the Department of Social Services -- that repeatedly fail these girls."

From The Washington Post:
"This book should be mandatory reading in middle school, for as the young mothers themselves explain, had they known what they were getting into, they never would have walked this path."

From Publisher's Weekly:
"Compelling and important...this book adroitly illuminates a social crisis."

From Booklist:
"This deserves a spot on the shelf near Robert Coles' similarly accessible investigations of contemporary social issues."

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