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ERIC Number: EJ576065
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
Like Mother, Like Child: Intergenerational Patterns of Age at First Birth and Associations with Childhood and Adolescent Characteristics and Adult Outcomes in the Second Generation.
Hardy, Janet B.; Astone, Nan M.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Shapiro, Sam; Miller, Therese L.
Developmental Psychology, v34 n6 p1220-32 Nov 1998
This study found that continuity in teenage parenting across two generations was associated with family and personal characteristics unfavorable for optimal child development; and also found that delay of first parenting till age 25 or later was associated with more favorable environmental characteristics and greater adult self-sufficiency. (BC)
Descriptors: Children, Early Parenthood, Family Characteristics, First Born, Longitudinal Studies, Parents
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Cross Generational Studies; Self Sufficiency
Note: Special Section: Longitudinal Studies of Intergenerational Continuity and the Transfer of Psychosocial Risk.