Making the Best of a Bad Situation: Material Resources and Teenage Parenthood

Autor/in	Mollborn, Stefanie
Titel	Making the Best of a Bad Situation: Material Resources and Teenage Parenthood
Quelle	In: Journal of Marriage and Family, 69 (2007) 1, S.92-104 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2445
DOI	10.1111/j.1741-3737.2006.00347.x
Schlagwörter	Housing; Financial Support; Mothers; Educational Attainment; Child Care; Early Parenthood; Multiple Regression Analysis; Longitudinal Studies; Life Style; Family Financial Resources; Gender Differences; Adolescents; Correlation; Hypothesis Testing + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Unterkunft; Finanzielle Förderung; Mother; Mutter; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Lebensstil; Geschlechterkonflikt; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Korrelation; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest
Abstract	Past research has largely ignored the influence of material resources on teenage parents' life outcomes. A lack of resources such as housing, child care, and financial support is hypothesized to explain the negative effect of teenage parenthood on educational attainment. Regression analyses use nationally representative data from the 1988 2000 National Education Longitudinal Study (N = 8,432, n = 356 teenage parents). Results support the hypothesis completely for the teenage fathers in the sample and partially for mothers: Resources substantially diminish the educational penalty teenage parents paid by age 26. Gender influences which types of resources are protective, providing policy implications. Help with child care is critical for teenage mothers, whereas housing and financial resources may be important for men. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10