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Title: Association Between Parenthood and Problem Behavior in a National Sample of Adolescent Women
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Elster, Arthur B. Ketterlinus, Robert D. Lamb, Michael E. |
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Association Between Parenthood and Problem Behavior in a National Sample of Adolescent Women Pediatrics 85,6 (June 1990): 1044-1050. Also: http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/abstract/85/6/1044 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Behavioral Problems; Deviance; Drug Use; Illegal Activities; Mothers; Parental Influences; Racial Differences; Runaways; Rural Sociology; Rural Youth; Rural/Urban Differences; School Suspension/Expulsion; Substance Use; Truancy The association between problem behaviors and parental status was studied among 1263 urban and 388 rural 15- to 17-year old teens from the NLSY. The three parental status groups appeared ordered in risk, with school-age mothers having engaged in the most problem behaviors, followed, in turn, by young adult mothers (those who had a child between 19-21 years of age) and then women who had not had a child by age 21. When individual behaviors were analyzed, school-age mothers were more likely than either young adult mothers or non-mothers to have reported school suspension, truancy, runaway, smoking marijuana and fighting. Urban women, overall, engaged in more problem behaviors than did rural women, and blacks reported fewer problem behaviors than did whites. |
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Elster, Arthur B., Robert D. Ketterlinus and Michael E. Lamb. "Association Between Parenthood and Problem Behavior in a National Sample of Adolescent Women." Pediatrics 85,6 (June 1990): 1044-1050.
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