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Title: Contextual Influences on Adolescent Men's Initiation of Sexual Activity and Transition to Fatherhood
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Lloyd, Kim Marie |
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Contextual Influences on Adolescent Men's Initiation of Sexual Activity and Transition to Fatherhood Presented: Chicago, IL, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1998 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Black Youth; Census of Population; Ethnic Differences; Event History; Fatherhood; Hispanic Youth; Hispanics; Marriage; Racial Differences; Sexual Activity; Social Environment; Social Influences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the social context in which young males make decisions to become sexually active. Once sexually active, I further explore how the social environment either impedes or facilitates fatherhood among young men. Special attention is given to how contextual variables differentially affect familial and sexual decisions among nonhispanic white, African American, and Latino subpopulations. To this end, I merge microlevel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth with aggregate Public Use Microdata from the U.S. Census. This allows an examination of the impact of marriage market characteristics and other contextual variables on the transition to first sexual experience and risk of fatherhood, net of traditional individual-level predictors. Discrete-time event history models reveal significant racial and ethnic differences in the timing of first intercourse and likelihood of subsequent parenthood. Implications regarding the contextual impact on both phenomenon are discussed in detail. |
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Lloyd, Kim Marie. "Contextual Influences on Adolescent Men's Initiation of Sexual Activity and Transition to Fatherhood." Presented: Chicago, IL, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1998. |