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Title: Adolescent Fathers in the United States: Their Initial Living Arrangements, Marital Experience and Educational Outcomes
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1. Marsiglio, William
Adolescent Fathers in the United States: Their Initial Living Arrangements, Marital Experience and Educational Outcomes
Family Planning Perspectives 19,6 (November-December 1987): 240-241+243-251.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2135104
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Alan Guttmacher Institute
Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Age at First Birth; Childbearing; Educational Attainment; Family Structure; Fathers; Fertility; Hispanic Youth; Household Composition; Marital Status; Teenagers

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Data from the NLSY show that seven percent of young males who were aged 20-27 in 1984 had fathered a child while they were teenagers, more than three-quarters of them nonmaritally. One-third of them married within 12 months of conception, and half of all of the young men lived with their child shortly after the child's birth. Overall, young black men were more likely to have been responsible for a nonmarital first birth than were males of other racial backgrounds, and only 15 percent of black teenagers lived with their first child. Multivariate analyses indicate that only black or Hispanic youths and those who fathered a child at age 16 or younger were significantly less likely to have lived with their first child; those who were raised Catholic were more likely to have done so. Teenage fathers, regardless of their marital status at conception or age at first birth, were much more likely to have been high school dropouts than were other male teenagers. Those with a maritally conceived child had a particularly high drop-out rate - almost 62 percent. A multivariate analysis revealed that a teenage father's living with his child shortly after birth was not significantly related to his completion of high school, while being black was positively associated. The racial difference may mean that norms or social and familial supports are more influential for young black males in minimizing the possible deleterious effects of teenage fatherhood on schooling.
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Marsiglio, William. "Adolescent Fathers in the United States: Their Initial Living Arrangements, Marital Experience and Educational Outcomes." Family Planning Perspectives 19,6 (November-December 1987): 240-241+243-251.