“…The demographic characteristics were age, education, marital status, previous hospitalizations, family support for you, and family support for baby, family structure, and family decision making for you, and decision making for baby. In previous studies on caring, the demographic data survey consisted of four items, which were age, education, ethnicity, and previous hospitalizations (Cronin & Harrison, 1988;Huggins et al, 1993;Marini, 1999;Mullins, 1996). This study sought to recruit first-time African American teenage mothers.…”