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Title: Unintended Birth and Children's Long-term Mental Health
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Su, Jessica Houston |
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Unintended Birth and Children's Long-term Mental Health Journal of Health and Social Behavior 58,3 (September 2017): 357-370. Also: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022146517717037 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Birth Preferences/Birth Expectations; Child Health; Depression (see also CESD); Health, Mental/Psychological; Parental Influences; Wantedness Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Research has examined the proximate effects of unintended birth on infants and young children, but we know relatively little about the longer-term effects. Given that unintended birth is associated with several childhood risk factors, it might set the stage for poor mental health in adulthood. Drawing on rich intergenerational survey data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 (N = 3,742), this study used a variety of statistical techniques to examine whether maternal pregnancy intentions are associated with children's depressive symptoms during early adulthood. Results from ordinary least squares regression suggest that children resulting from unintended pregnancies experienced more depressive symptoms in their 20s than children resulting from intended pregnancies, controlling for a host of characteristics. Results from propensity-weighted and sibling fixed-effects models suggest that there is little to no causal relationship, however. Much of the initial association between maternal fertility intentions and children's depressive symptoms is attributed to the mother's sociodemographic characteristics. |
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Su, Jessica Houston. "Unintended Birth and Children's Long-term Mental Health." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 58,3 (September 2017): 357-370.
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