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Title: The Role of Family Support in Determining Developmental Outcomes in Children of Teen Mothers
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Cooley, Marcia L. Unger, Donald G. |
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The Role of Family Support in Determining Developmental Outcomes in Children of Teen Mothers Child Psychiatry and Human Development 21,3 (Spring 1991): 217-234. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/w18608nx0g5j5427/ Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Behavioral Publications Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Care; Child Development; Contraception; Family Influences; Grandmothers; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Household Composition; Motherhood; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Support Networks; Teenagers Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In-depth interview data obtained in 1986 from 338 black and white mothers who had born children 6-7 years earlier when they were teenagers (14-19) reveal that such children tend to be impaired developmentally compared to children of older mothers. Since family support has frequently been proposed as a mediator of the stress that teen parents experience, data on the mothers gathered as part of the NLSY (1979-1986) are analyzed to investigate the role of family support factors and maternal characteristics in relation to children's developmental outcomes. Two models outlining the role of partner and grandmother family support are proposed to explain the process by which child development occurs within the family contexts of teen families. Implications of the results for intervention are discussed. [Sociological Abstracts, Inc.] |
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Cooley, Marcia L. and Donald G. Unger. "The Role of Family Support in Determining Developmental Outcomes in Children of Teen Mothers." Child Psychiatry and Human Development 21,3 (Spring 1991): 217-234.
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