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- Title
Is There a Grandma in the House?
- Authors
Klitsch, Michael
- Abstract
This article reports that young women living with a grandparent are less likely than those who are not to give birth during adolescence. Researchers drew from the High School and Beyond study, a longitudinal survey that began in 1980 with a nationally representative sample of 4,786 young women from more than 1,000 high schools in the U.S. Logistic regression analyses indicate that young women residing with a grandparent in both 1980 and 1982 were 64 percent less likely than other teenagers to have given birth, and were 80 percent less likely than others to have had an out-of-wedlock birth. The impact of living with a grandparent was seen primarily among teenagers who did not also live with one birth parent and among those who lived with a grandparent and with both parents. The researchers conclude that grandparental co-residence seems to discourage young women from early childbearing among families other than single-parent families.
- Subjects
UNITED States; GRANDPARENT-grandchild relationships; TEENAGE pregnancy; CHILDBIRTH; LOGISTIC regression analysis; YOUNG women
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1995, Vol 27, Issue 2, p52
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article