Adolescent Mothers in Later Life (Human Development in Cultural and Historical Contexts)

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
List of tables and figures......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
The emergence of teenage childbearing as a social problem......Page 16
Research on teenage childbearing......Page 21
Have the effects of early childbearing been exaggerated?......Page 23
The Baltimore study......Page 25
Organization of the results......Page 33
Looking back on the transition to parenthood......Page 36
The life-history calendar......Page 37
Schooling......Page 40
Marital history......Page 45
Residential experience......Page 48
Fertility......Page 49
Economic status: welfare, work, and family income......Page 55
Employment experience......Page 58
Income......Page 59
Summary......Page 61
3 - Pathways to success in adulthood......Page 63
Strategy for data analysis......Page 64
Variability in economic status at the 17-year follow-up......Page 65
Characteristics of the pregnant adolescent......Page 69
Paths of influence......Page 72
Variability in fertility at the 17-year follow-up......Page 85
Summary......Page 89
4 - The children's experience......Page 92
The life course of the child......Page 94
The mother's pregnancy and neonatal outcome......Page 104
Schooling experiences of the children......Page 105
Maladjustment and misbehavior......Page 111
The adolescent's sexual behavior......Page 113
Summary......Page 119
Maternal life course and children's environment......Page 121
Child development and the mother's life course......Page 123
Analytic strategy......Page 124
Cross-sectional comparisons......Page 126
Consistency across mother's and child's life course......Page 134
The life course of mothers and children......Page 137
Summary......Page 142
The Baltimore study......Page 145
The life course of adolescent mothers......Page 146
Explaining life-course trajectories......Page 148
The children of adolescent parents......Page 156
Interconnections between the maternal life course and child outcomes......Page 158
Policy implications of the Baltimore study......Page 160
Conclusion......Page 167
Appendixes......Page 170
A - Life-history calendar......Page 172
B - Reliability......Page 173
C - Analysis of sample attrition for bias......Page 176
D - Description of data sets used for comparison of socioeconomic variables with Baltimore data set in Table 2.2......Page 178
E - Methods and procedures used in Chapter 3......Page 182
F - Description and details of multivariate analysis reported in Chapter 4 and 5......Page 186
G - Procedure for computing summary statistics in Chapter 6......Page 199
Bibliography......Page 202
Index......Page 212