Congress
identified the following purposes: the promotion of «self -
discipline and other prudent approaches to the problem of adolescent premarital sexual relations,» the promotion of adoption as an
alternative for adolescent parents, the development of new approaches to the delivery of care to pregnant teenage girls, and the support of research and demonstration projects «concerning the societal causes and consequences of adolescent premarital sexual relations, contraceptive use, pregnancy, and child rearing.»
Richard Susskind has written several books on the implications for lawyers and
identified several developing career
alternatives — legal hybrids (lawyers taking on an added
discipline as strategists, management consultants, psychologists, etc), legal project managers, legal risk managers and others.