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Title: Social Capital and the Normative Order of Life Events Among At-Risk Female Youth
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Sugland, Barbara W. Blumenthal, Connie Moore, Kristin Anderson |
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Social Capital and the Normative Order of Life Events Among At-Risk Female Youth Presented: San Francisco, CA, Population Association of America Meetings, 1995 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Childbearing; Disadvantaged, Economically; Event History; First Birth; High School Completion/Graduates; Labor Force Participation; Life Cycle Research; Marriage; Racial Differences; School Completion Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper explores the mediating effects of family-based social capital on the normative order of life events among at-risk female youth. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women are used to examine the transition to: 1) high school completion, 2) consistent labor force participation, 3) first birth, and 4) first marriage. Female adolescents 14 to 16 years of age in 1968 constitute the study sample. Young women are observed for a period of 20 years (1968 to 1988). Findings indicate strong racial disparities in the dominant order of life events for young women. Specifically, whites are significantly more likely than blacks to complete high school before any other life event. Black women are significantly more likely than white women to experience a first birth prior to a transition to work, school completion, or marriage, and enter the labor force last in the sequence of observed life events. The normative order of life trajectories is unaffected by risk status, irrespective of race. Exposure to family-based social capital increases the likelihood of high school completion and stable employment before marriage and childbearing, particularly among at-risk black women. Social capital also significantly contributes to eventual high school completion among young school-age mothers. The need to examine cultural differences in the normative order of life events, and the need for further exploration of positive supports disadvantaged families provide for their children is discussed. |
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Sugland, Barbara W., Connie Blumenthal and Kristin Anderson Moore. "Social Capital and the Normative Order of Life Events Among At-Risk Female Youth." Presented: San Francisco, CA, Population Association of America Meetings, 1995. |