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Title: School Based Program Assistance to Adolescent Mothers: Transferring Benefits From Mothers to Their Children
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Graefe, Deborah Roempke |
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School Based Program Assistance to Adolescent Mothers: Transferring Benefits From Mothers to Their Children New Orleans, LA, Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, May 1996. Also: http://www.pop.psu.edu/general/pubs/working_papers/psu-pri/wp9610.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Home Environment; Parenting Skills/Styles; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Transfers, Parental; Verbal Memory (McCarthy Scale) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. School-based programs fostering school retention and effective parenting skills among teenaged mothers are examined for effects transferring to their children. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth merged child-mother sample, behavioral and cognitive outcomes are compared for children whose adolescent mothers participated in such services and those whose teenaged mothers did not. Panel analyses, controlling for selection factors, show only a mother's receipt of prenatal care and high school graduation are related to her child's verbal ability; no assistance measure is related to behavior. A mother's education affects her child's cognitive development through its influence on the subsequent home environment; prenatal care operates independently of home environment quality. Cross-sectional analyses suggest school effects on graduation. Implications of the findings are explored. |
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Graefe, Deborah Roempke. "School Based Program Assistance to Adolescent Mothers: Transferring Benefits From Mothers to Their Children." New Orleans, LA, Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, May 1996. |