ANTECEDENTS, CORRELATES, CONSEQUENCES OF ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY AND PARENTHOOD

该项目是由 犹他大学的兰姆博士。已完成或正在进行的工作 NICHD的进展涉及对来自两个大型 具有全国代表性的样本：国家纵向 青年研究(NLSY)与人口普查局的现状 人口调查(CPS)。我们的目标是描述 青少年为人父母的心理社会背景及其影响因素 对母亲和父亲都有长期影响。 A.青少年为人父的相关因素。在数据分析中 从NLSY，我们发现了明确的证据，不分种族， 青春期的父亲身份只是更广泛的 心理社会问题。与同龄的无父父亲相比 来自相似背景的青春期父亲 可能有与警方、学校有牵连的历史 问题和药物滥用。 B.青少年为人父母的长期相关因素。在以前的 CPS数据分析表明，青春期婚姻是 与婚姻稳定性、收入、 教育程度和职业声望 结婚后至少40年。类似的长期不良反应 随后发现了对母亲的影响。在.的情况下 母亲，包括青春期生育和青春期婚姻 与较高的终生生育率(根据年龄进行调整)有关， 收入越低，声望越低，职业评级越低 教育程度，以及更频繁的婚姻解体。 这些影响并不是累加的，但最好的结果是 由那些推迟生育和 婚姻进入成年期。 这个项目的意义在于它证明了 青春期的父母(A)不是随机或偶然的事件，(B) 对心理有长期的--本质上是终生的--影响 以及男性和女性的社会经济地位。

This project is a continuation of a research program initiated by Dr. Lamb at the University of Utah. Work completed or in progress at NICHD involves analyses of data from two large nationally-representative samples: the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY) and the Census Bureau's Current Population Surveys (CPS). The goal is to describe the psychosocial context of adolescent parenthood and to explore the long-term effects for both mothers and fathers. A. Correlates of adolescent fatherhood. In an analysis of data from the NLSY, we found clear evidence that, regardless of race, adolescent fatherhood was but one symptom of a wider variety of psychosocial problems. Compared with nonfathers of similar ages from similar backgrounds, adolescent fathers were much more likely to have a history of involvement with police, school problems, and substance abuse. B. Long-term correlates of adolescent parenthood. In a previous analysis of CPS data, it was shown that adolescent marriage was associated in men with deficits in marital stability, income, educational attainment, and occupational prestige through at least 40 years after the marriage. Similar adverse long-term consequences were subsequently found for mothers. In the case of mothers, both adolescent childbearing and adolescent marriage were associated with higher lifetime fertility (adjusting for age), lower income, less prestigious occupational ratings, lower educational attainment, and more frequent marital dissolution. The effects were not additive, but the "best" outcomes were obtained by those women who delayed both childbearing and marriage into adulthood. The significance of this project lies in its demonstration that adolescent parent hood (a) is not a random or chance event and (b) has long term--essentially life-long--effects on the psychological and socioeconomic status of both men and women.