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Title: Male Teenage Fertility: An Analysis of Fatherhood Commitment and its Association with Educational Outcomes and Aspirations
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Marsiglio, William |
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Male Teenage Fertility: An Analysis of Fatherhood Commitment and its Association with Educational Outcomes and Aspirations Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1987 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Fathers, Influence; Fertility; Hispanics; Household Composition; Racial Differences; Schooling; Teenagers My research, based on NLSY data and my survey of high school youth in Columbus, Ohio, focuses on male adolescent fertility, teenage fathers' propensity to live with their nonmaritally conceived first child, and young males' hypothetical intentions to do the same in the event that they and their girlfriend were responsible for an unplanned pregnancy. I explore the association between living arrangement variables and young fathers' educational outcomes, schooling intentions, and their expectations for their partners' schooling. I also test Ajzen and Fishbein's social psychological model of reasoned action. I argue that this kind of research is timely since we need to incorporate young males more fully into our conceptualization of adolescent fertility and fatherhood if we wish to develop more viable policies and programs. NLSY data indicate 5.5 percent of males 20-27 years of age in 1984 were teenagers when they fathered a nonmaritally conceived first child, that almost 80 percent of teenage fathers had their child when they were 18 or 19 years old, and that black teens were more likely to father children, and to do so outside of marriage and at younger ages, than their white or Hispanic counterparts. While several background variables were associated with an above average probability of living with a child initially for whites in a multivariate context, none of the measured background variables were significant predictors of living arrangement status among blacks. These data do not suggest that living with a child is directly related to adverse educational consequences. Teenage fathers whose first child was maritally conceived had the poorest high school completion patterns of all males. About half of young males in the high school sample, both whites and blacks, indicated that they would be "quite likely" or "extremely likely" to live with their partner and child. The attitudinal and subjective norm components of Ajzen and Fishbein's model accounted for 32 percent of the variance in the intention variable and the attitudinal component was the more powerful predictor in all models. [UMI ADG87-10026] |
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Marsiglio, William. Male Teenage Fertility: An Analysis of Fatherhood Commitment and its Association with Educational Outcomes and Aspirations. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1987. |