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Kandel, Denise B. Rosenbaum, Emily Chen, Kevin |
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Impact of Maternal Drug Use and Life Experiences on Preadolescent Children Born to Teenage Mothers Journal of Marriage and Family 56,2 (May 1994): 325-340. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/353103 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: National Council on Family Relations Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; Children, School-Age; Cognitive Development; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Deviance; Drug Use; Family Structure; Fathers, Absence; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Household Structure; Marital Disruption; Mothers, Adolescent; Mothers, Behavior; Mothers, Education; Parenthood; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Self-Esteem; Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC) The influence of maternal drug use and unconventional behavior on children's behavioral problems, cognitive functioning, and self-esteem is examined for children aged 8 and older born to adolescent mothers. Analyses are based on 581 unique mother-child dyads from the 1986 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Causal model indicate that maternal attitudes and experiences as an adolescent or young adult (having been raised in a nonintact home, self-esteem, and delinquency) and current family structure have different consequences for the home environments provided for girls and boys. These same maternal characteristics also directly influence children's externalizing and internalizing problem behaviors, and feelings of self-worth. The effect of maternal drug use on children is indirect and operates through increasing the risk of marital disruption. |
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Kandel, Denise B., Emily Rosenbaum and Kevin Chen. "Impact of Maternal Drug Use and Life Experiences on Preadolescent Children Born to Teenage Mothers." Journal of Marriage and Family 56,2 (May 1994): 325-340.
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