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Title: Developmental and Ecological Sources of Stress Among Adolescent Parents (part of a symposium on: Adolescent pregnancy and parenting)
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1. Ketterlinus, Robert D.
Lamb, Michael E.
Nitz, Katherine
Developmental and Ecological Sources of Stress Among Adolescent Parents (part of a symposium on: Adolescent pregnancy and parenting)
Family Relations 40,4 (October 1991): 435-441.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/584901
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: National Council on Family Relations
Keyword(s): Childbearing; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Stress

This article provides an overview of research on the stresses associated with normative developmental transitions, the effects of psychological stress on adult parenting and parent-child interactions, and the stresses associated with the transition to parenthood during adolescence, with an emphasis on schoo/-age parents. Suggestions are provided for the design of developmentally and ecologically valid research and interventions, and for broadly based public policy addressing the unique problems associated with adolescent parenting.
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Ketterlinus, Robert D., Michael E. Lamb and Katherine Nitz. "Developmental and Ecological Sources of Stress Among Adolescent Parents (part of a symposium on: Adolescent pregnancy and parenting)." Family Relations 40,4 (October 1991): 435-441.