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Title: The Patterning of Female Teenage Sexual Behavior and its Relationship to Early Fertility
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Mott, Frank L. |
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The Patterning of Female Teenage Sexual Behavior and its Relationship to Early Fertility Columbus OH: Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, May 1984 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Center for Human Resource Research Keyword(s): Abortion; Adolescent Fertility; Behavior; Contraception; Educational Aspirations/Expectations; Family Background and Culture; Fertility; Religious Influences; Sexual Activity; Sexual Behavior; Wantedness Revised version of a paper presented to the Annual Meetings of the American Public Health Association, Dallas TX, November 1983. This paper uses data from the 1979 through 1982 rounds of the NLSY to examine the relevance of early background and more proximate factors as determinants of a range of fertility related outcomes for a nationally representative sample of young American women between the ages of 17 and 20 in 1982. The principal objective was to determine whether or not the patterning of these fertility-related outcomes (which include sexual activity, contraception, early pregnancy or childbirth, abortion, wantedness of first birth or pregnancy) fell into any coherent framework. The results are strongly consistent with the notion that generalizable anti-natalist behavior patterns can be related to seemingly disparate social and psychological origins. More traditional background orientation such as religiousity and stable family background are associated with early anti-natalist tendencies as are less traditional orientations such as striving for post-graduate education or viewing non-home roles for women as desirable. However, the mechanisms whereby lower fertility is achieved varies between young women who have these different orientations. |
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Mott, Frank L. The Patterning of Female Teenage Sexual Behavior and its Relationship to Early Fertility. Columbus OH: Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, May 1984. |