“Like Parent, Like Child?”: The intergenerational transmission of nonmarital childbearing

Högnäs, Robin S.; Carlson, Marcia J.

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.05.012

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“…Early initiation of sexual intercourse has been more frequently studied, both as outcome (e.g., Oberlander et al, 2011) and predictor of other outcomes (Manlove, Terry, Gitelson, Papillo, & Russell, 2000; Sandfort, Orr, Hirsch, & Santelli, 2007). Early sexual initiation and early parenting are strongly linked, but not identical (Hognas & Carlson, 2012); this research suggests factors that might predict early parenting specifically, but this proposition remains untested.…”

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“…For example, low socioeconomic status predicts both risk for early parenthood (Xie et al, 2001) and expectations of early parenthood; youth who by virtue of their low socioeconomic status, are at elevated risk for early parenthood may be aware of this risk (Thompson et al, 2012). Indeed, these expectations are likely reinforced by, and emerge in the context of, the strong intergenerational links in likelihood of early parenting and the socioeconomic contexts in which early parenting is most likely (Hardy et al, 1998; Hognas & Carlson, 2012; Meade et al, 2008). …”

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Early parenting: The roles of maltreatment, trauma symptoms, and future expectations

Thompson

Neilson

2014

Journal of Adolescence

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The psychosocial determinants of early parenting are still not well understood. The current study used data on 115 girls in the Capella Project, who were followed longitudinally for the first 18 years of life. Potential predictors of early parenting assessed were child maltreatment, trauma symptoms, and girls’ expectations for their socioeconomic outcomes. Cox regression survival analyses were conducted to predict time to the birth of first child. Significant unique predictors of early parenting included neglect, anxiety, low depression, and low expectations of going to college. Practice and research implications of these findings include the importance of neglect for risk of early parenting, the importance of ongoing trauma symptoms in youth, and the potentially protective influence of expectations of going to college.

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Early parenting: The roles of maltreatment, trauma symptoms, and future expectations

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Neilson

2014

Journal of Adolescence

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“…Following much of the prior scholarship on childbearing outcomes, I choose to analyze the data using the cox proportional hazards modeling approach (Bumpass & McLanahan 1989; Guzzo & Hayford 2009; Hognas & Carlson 2012; Wu & Thomson, 2001). This multivariate hazard approach is quite flexible because it uses the Cox partial likelihood method and treats time as continuous (Fox 2002).…”

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Household incarceration in early adolescence and risk of premarital first birth

Gottlieb

2016

Children and Youth Services Review

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In the second half of the 20th century, the United States experienced a massive increase in incarceration. In response to this growth, a burgeoning scholarship has sought to explore the collateral consequences of incarceration for young children. However, this scholarship has less frequently explored the impact of incarceration on long-term outcomes, how incarceration experienced in periods other than early childhood impacts children, and whether the incarceration of family members other than parents has negative implications for children. Using data from the children of the mothers in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I explore whether household incarceration experienced in early adolescence is associated with a child's risk of growing up to have a premarital first birth. The results suggest that, even after including a rich set of covariates, children who experience household incarceration in early adolescence are at greater risk of having a premarital first birth, particularly when the father or an external household member is incarcerated.

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“…In contrast, young people are only somewhat more likely (1.2 times) to receive disability payments if their parents received unemployment-related social assistance. 21 Research also shows that family dissolution in childhood increases the chances of divorce and fertility patterns (including non-marital and early childbirth) are often reproduced across generations (Wolfinger 2000;Barber 2001;Li and Wu 2008;Högnäs and Carlson 2012;Diekmann and Schmidheiny 2013). Both are linked to single parenthood.…”

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Intergenerational Disadvantage: Learning about Equal Opportunity from Social Assistance Receipt

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Across the globe there is a growing divide between the wellbeing of those at the top of the socioeconomic ladder and those at the bottom. Despite tremendous economic growth, more than 75 percent of people in developing countries are living in societies that are more unequal today than they were in the 1990s. The link in social and economic wellbeing across generations makes redistributive policy design extremely challenging. Thus, it is important that we look beyond traditional tax-and-transfer programs to find new approaches to supporting disadvantaged families. To this end, it is crucial to understand the mechanisms underpinning the transmission of disadvantage from parents to their children (intergenerational disadvantage).We examine the factors underlying intergenerational disadvantage by analyzing the correlation between parents' and their children's receipt of social assistance across different social assistance payments. We use administrative social security (Centrelink) records linked over time and within families; giving us detailed social assistance trajectories -across the entire social safety net -for a birth cohort of young adults and their families over an 18-year period. Our strategy is to exploit differences in how strongly linked is the receipt of social assistance from parents to children across programs -which differ in their target population and eligibility rules -to learn about how disadvantage is transmitted.We find that young people are not only more likely (1.8 times) to need social assistance if their parents have a history of receiving social assistance; they also need more intensive support, receiving an additional $12,000 of social assistance over an 8-year period. The intergenerational correlation is particularly strong in the case of disability payments, payments for those with caring responsibilities, and parenting payments for single parents. Parental disability and single parenthood are the clearest pathways through which disadvantage is being passed from Australian parents to their children. In contrast, other forms of disadvantage, in particular those stemming from parents' poor labor market outcomes, seem to be easier for young people to overcome. Parental disadvantage may be more harmful to children's later life outcomes if it is more strongly driven by circumstances rather than personal choice.Our results suggest that the playing field is not level for all children. Disparities in young people's outcomes are not simply the result of their -or their parents' -differential efforts; unequal opportunities also play a critical role. Greater policy effort must be devoted to leveling the playing field for children growing up in particularly vulnerable families. ABOUT THE AUTHORS AbstractWe use variation in the extent of generational persistence across social assistance payments to shed light on the factors leading to intergenerational disadvantage. Our administrative data come from the Australian social security system and provide us with detailed social assistance trajectorie...

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“Like Parent, Like Child?”: The intergenerational transmission of nonmarital childbearing

Cited by 24 publications

References 71 publications

Early parenting: The roles of maltreatment, trauma symptoms, and future expectations

Early parenting: The roles of maltreatment, trauma symptoms, and future expectations

Household incarceration in early adolescence and risk of premarital first birth

Intergenerational Disadvantage: Learning about Equal Opportunity from Social Assistance Receipt

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