Extended households and the life course of young mothers: Understanding the associations using a sample of mothers with premature, low birth weight babies
Extended households and the life course of young mothers: Understanding the associations using a sample of mothers with premature, low birth weight babies
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00723.x
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发表时间：
2004-07-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Brooks-Gunn, J
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作者：
Gordon, RA;Chase-Lansdale, PL;Brooks-Gunn, J
本文探讨了是否更大的平均教育和就业，以及较低的养育能力，与成年亲属居住的年轻母亲反映了预先存在的差异与潜在的因果机制。样本包括来自婴儿健康与发展计划（IHDP）的554名年轻母亲（年龄在13至25岁之间;近三分之二的非洲裔美国人），这是一项对早产儿，低出生体重婴儿进行的随机分配干预研究，从出生到3岁随访8次。普通最小二乘法，固定效应和随机效应模型表明，低出生体重婴儿的年轻母亲根据与其较低的育儿技能和知识相关的先前存在的特征分类到扩展家庭。相比之下，在不同的模型中，共同居住预测了更多的教育或就业，不同的子群体有一些变化。
This paper examined whether the greater average schooling and employment, and lower parenting competence, of young mothers who reside with adult relatives reflect preexisting differences versus potential causal mechanisms. The sample included 554 young mothers (ages 13 to 25; nearly two thirds African American) from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP) a random-assignment intervention study of premature, low birth weight babies followed 8 times from birth to age 3. Ordinary least squares, fixed-effects, and random-effects models indicated that young mothers of low birth weight babies sorted into extended households based on preexisting characteristics that were correlated with their lower parenting skills and knowledge. In contrast, coresidence predicted greater schooling or employment across models, with some variations for different subgroups.