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ERIC Number: EJ825890
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Feb
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-2445
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Norms about Nonmarital Pregnancy and Willingness to Provide Resources to Unwed Parents
Mollborn, Stefanie
Journal of Marriage and Family, v71 n1 p122-134 Feb 2009
Contested social norms underlie public concern about adults' and teenagers' nonmarital pregnancy. The original, vignette-based National Pregnancy Norms Survey (N = 812) measures these norms and related sanctions. Descriptive analyses report embarrassment at the prospect of a nonmarital pregnancy by age and gender of hypothetical prospective parents and age, race or ethnicity, and socioeconomic status of respondents. Multivariate analyses show that embarrassment about nonmarital pregnancy is frequently weak but much stronger when prospective parents are teenagers. Embarrassment predicts respondents' hypothetical sanctions of a new parent in their family by withholding several types of needed material resources. Because research has shown that such resources affect education and income, this study helps explain how violating norms might lead to negative outcomes among unmarried parents.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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