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Long-term Consequences for Children of Teenage Parents

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Journal Demography
Specialty Public Health
Date 1981 May 1
PMID 7227581
Citations 8
Authors
J J Card
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Abstract

Data from Project TALENT were analyzed to investigate whether any long-term consequences exist for children of teenage parents. TALENT is a longitudinal national survey of 375,000 individuals who were in grades 9-12 in 1960. TALENT participants born when their mother and/or father was a teenager were compared with their classmates born when both parents were older on a variety of educational, occupational, and social dimensions. Many differences were found, owing primarily to the different social and economic background characteristics of the two groups. Even with the background factors controlled, the children of teenage parents, in comparison to their classmates: (a) showed decrements in terms of academic achievement; (b) were more likely to live in one-parent or stepparent homes; and (c) showed a slight tendency to repeat the early marriage, early parenthood, and higher fertility cycle of their parent(s).

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