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Title: Adverse Childhood Experiences, Early and Nonmarital Fertility, and Women's Health at Midlife
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Williams, Kristi Finch, Brian |
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Adverse Childhood Experiences, Early and Nonmarital Fertility, and Women's Health at Midlife Journal of Health and Social Behavior 60,3 (September 2019): 309-325. Also: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022146519868842 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Childhood Adversity/Trauma; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have powerful consequences for health and well-being throughout the life course. We draw on evidence that exposure to ACEs shapes developmental processes central to emotional regulation, impulsivity, and the formation of secure intimate ties to posit that ACEs shape the timing and context of childbearing, which in turn partially mediate the well-established effect of ACEs on women's later-life health. Analysis of 25 years of nationally representative panel data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY79; n = 3,893) indicates that adverse childhood experiences predict earlier age at first birth and greater odds of having a nonmarital first birth. Age and marital status at first birth partially mediate the effect of ACEs on women's health at midlife. Implications for public health and family policy aimed at improving maternal and child well-being are discussed. |
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Williams, Kristi and Brian Finch. "Adverse Childhood Experiences, Early and Nonmarital Fertility, and Women's Health at Midlife." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 60,3 (September 2019): 309-325.
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