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Title: Positive Outcomes among the Adolescent Children of Teen Mothers
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Moore, Kristin Anderson Manlove, Jennifer S. Terry-Humen, Elizabeth |
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Positive Outcomes among the Adolescent Children of Teen Mothers Presented: Atlanta, GA, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, May 2002 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mothers, Adolescent; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Poverty; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Although children born to teen mothers are at higher risk of negative outcomes, many manage to succeed in life. We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - Child Supplement to explore positive outcomes among adolescents aged 13-14 across several outcome domains: their activities; internalizing and externalizing behaviors; and academic achievements. Bivariate and multivariate analyses show that adolescents whose mothers were in their late teens rather than their early teens when their first child was born have better outcomes, as do adolescents with fewer siblings, those whose biological father is in the household, those not receiving welfare and those not in poverty. Components of the adolescent's home environment, including cognitive stimulation and emotional support, are associated with positive outcomes in multiple domains. Other factors affect outcomes primarily in one domain; for example, maternal education and cognitive test scores affect primarily academic outcomes. |
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Moore, Kristin Anderson, Jennifer S. Manlove and Elizabeth Terry-Humen. "Positive Outcomes among the Adolescent Children of Teen Mothers." Presented: Atlanta, GA, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, May 2002. |