Teenage Father is a 1978 American short film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Timothy Wead.

In 1979, it won an Oscar for Best Short Subject at the 51st Academy Awards.

The documentary filmmakers interview the couple as well as their friends and family about their perspectives on the matter.

In the final scene of the film the child has been born and John views his son in the nursery but by that point Kim is no longer speaking to him and does not let him visit her in her room, leaving John distraught about the future.

[5] Susan Cronkite, who plays the social worker in the film, was an actual social worker for Children's Home Society at the time of filming.