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- Title
Intergenerational Transmission Of School-Age Parenthood.
- Authors
Horwitz, Sarah McCue; Klerman, Lorraine V.; Kuo, H. Sung; Jekel, James F.
- Abstract
The article reports on a long-term follow-up of a group of black women who were young mothers in the late 1960s and the majority of their offspring had not become parents by the age of 19. Teenage pregnancy in the U.S. continues to be a significant social issue. Teenage parents are likely to have been unsuccessful academically, to have their first sexual intercourse early, to report little and inconsistent contraceptive use, to exhibit multiple problem behaviors and to come from disadvantaged families. Some recent work has shown that young parents are also likely to come from families in which the mother was sexually active at a young age or was herself a young, unmarried parent; thus, the children appear to perpetuate a family history of school-age parenthood. Susan Newcomer and J. Richard Udry found that daughters of mothers who were early initiators of sexual intercourse were more likely to have begun sexual relations early themselves, but their studies found no attitudinal, behavioral or interpersonal communication patterns that explained the results. Harriet Presser reported that daughters of teenage mothers were more likely to be young parents, but provided little theoretical explanation.
- Subjects
TEENAGE pregnancy; TEENAGE mothers; SEXUAL intercourse; CONTRACEPTIVE drugs; CHILDREN of teenage mothers; TEENAGE parents; PARENTHOOD
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1991, Vol 23, Issue 4, p168
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2135740