Predicting School Outcomes for Minority Group Adolescent Mothers: Can Subgroups be Identified?

Linares, L. Oriana; Leadbeater, Bonnie J.; Kato, Pamela M.; Jaffe, Leslie R.

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“…The Baltimore Study of Teenage Parenthood is one of two studies conducted in the 1960s that found an association between sharing a household with adult relatives and young mothers' better schooling and employment outcomes (Furstenberg, 1976;Furstenberg et al, 1987;Furstenberg & Crawford, 1978;Presser, 1980). Recent localized studies show more varied findings, perhaps because of unique features of the samples (Leadbeater, 1996;Leadbeater & Way, 2001;Linares, Leadbeater, Kato, & Jaffe, 1991;Seitz, Apfel, & Rosenbaum, 1991;Spieker & Bensley, 1994;Way & Leadbeater, 1999). But the 1960s findings have been consistently replicated across several nationally representative samples, including the 5% Public Use Microdata Samples of the 1980 Census (Trent & Harlan, 1994), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (Sandfort & Hill, 1996), and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY; Unger & Cooley, 1992).…”

Section: Extended Households and Young Mothers' Economicmentioning

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Extended Households and the Life Course of Young Mothers: Understanding the Associations Using a Sample of Mothers With Premature, Low Birth Weight Babies

2004

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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.

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Section: Extended Households and Young Mothers' Economicmentioning

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Extended Households and the Life Course of Young Mothers: Understanding the Associations Using a Sample of Mothers With Premature, Low Birth Weight Babies

2004

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“…We also appreciate the assistance of ing staff of the Adolescent Health Center, Mt. Sinai (Lmarcs, Leadbeater, KatO, & Jaffe, 1991). Hospital, New York, and of the young mothers who Research has consistently demonstrated asparticipated in this study.…”

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Depressive symptoms in black and Puerto Rican adolescent mothers in the first 3 years postpartum

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Linares

1992

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While depressive symptoms in adolescent mothers may affect both their own and their babies' development, little research has focused on the mothers. Self-reported symptoms on the Beck Depression Inventory were collected at 1, 6, 12, and 28–36 months postpartum. Concurrent and reciprocal longitudinal relations among symptom levels, stressful life events, and social supports were investigated. Symptom levels declined over the four assessments, with changes in somatic, rather than cognitive affective, symptoms accounting for the decrease. Stressful life events and all sources of social supports predicted concurrent levels of depressive symptoms, but only social supports predicted declines in symptoms in the first year postpartum. Reciprocally, depressive symptoms tended (p = .06) to predict increases in stressful life events over time. Mothers were also categorized as reporting few (50%), intermittent (27.5%), or chronic (22.5%) symptoms in the first 12 months postpartum. Intermittently and chronically depressed mothers perceived their own mothers as less accepting than nondepressed mothers. Compared to nondepressed and intermittently depressed mothers, chronically depressed mothers also reported more stressful life events, were more likely to live alone, and experienced more moves by 28–36 months postpartum. The reciprocal causal relations among depressive symptoms, stress, and attachments to grandmothers and peers are discussed.

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“…Many pregnant adolescents do not marry before delivery owing to concerns about the stability of marriage [7] rather than a desire to become single mothers. Finally, significant numbers of adolescents continue to terminate their schooling soon after the diagnosis of pregnancy is confirmed [8,9]. Being socially stigmatized can lead to negative outcomes including depression, social isolation, lowered self-esteem, and poorer academic performance [10 -13].…”

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Are pregnant adolescents stigmatized by pregnancy?

Wiemann

Rickert

Berenson

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Journal of Adolescent Health

103

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Predicting School Outcomes for Minority Group Adolescent Mothers: Can Subgroups be Identified?

Cited by 19 publications

References 27 publications

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

Depressive symptoms in black and Puerto Rican adolescent mothers in the first 3 years postpartum

Are pregnant adolescents stigmatized by pregnancy?

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