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Title: Children of Teenage Mothers: What Determines Their Resiliency?
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Zhao, Hongxin |
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Children of Teenage Mothers: What Determines Their Resiliency? Presented: New Orleans, LA, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1996 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Age at Birth; Behavior; Children, Well-Being; Cognitive Ability; Fathers, Involvement; Life Course; Mothers, Adolescent; Resilience/Developmental Assets; Teenagers Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The purpose of this paper is to examine the conditions under which children of teenage mothers do well in aspects of cognitive, social, emotional, and physical well-being that are central to eventual self-sufficiency. I propose an analytic framework that adopts perspectives of a life course and of the limited differences theory. Specifically I propose that understanding who does and does not possess high well-being requires closer examination of the actual substance of children's lives, that is, their life experiences. Using data from the NLSY-CS, I approach the life histories by formulating a four-category typology of child well-being, based on the age of the mother at the birth of the child and the child's assessment scores at ages 4-6: age-advantaged, age-disadvantaged, resilient, and vulnerable. Boolean String Techniques are employed to identity multiple combinations of family resources, which include economic parental, and community resources, and to delineate diverse pathways to success for children of teenage mothers. |
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Zhao, Hongxin. "Children of Teenage Mothers: What Determines Their Resiliency?" Presented: New Orleans, LA, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1996. |