Reconsidering Teenage Pregnancy and Parenthood
This paper looks back at the findings reported in Destinies of the Disadvantaged: The Politics of Teenage Parenthood, a decade after its publication in light of recent research. Increasingly, the most methodologically sophisticated research has minimized the “causal impact” of early childbearing on...
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| description | This paper looks back at the findings reported in Destinies of the Disadvantaged: The Politics of Teenage Parenthood, a decade after its publication in light of recent research. Increasingly, the most methodologically sophisticated research has minimized the “causal impact” of early childbearing on later life events consistent with the findings of the Baltimore Study. I argue in the paper that we must see early childbearing primarily as a marker rather than a cause of economic disadvantage. As such, reducing early childbearing will have a minimal impact on the lives of highly disadvantaged teens unless those teens use the delay in childbearing to improve their education and labor market prospects. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-de6e39a28abd4603bdea58ae518e8f362022-12-22T01:51:29ZengMDPI AGSocieties2075-46982016-11-01643310.3390/soc6040033soc6040033Reconsidering Teenage Pregnancy and ParenthoodFrank Furstenberg0Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USAThis paper looks back at the findings reported in Destinies of the Disadvantaged: The Politics of Teenage Parenthood, a decade after its publication in light of recent research. Increasingly, the most methodologically sophisticated research has minimized the “causal impact” of early childbearing on later life events consistent with the findings of the Baltimore Study. I argue in the paper that we must see early childbearing primarily as a marker rather than a cause of economic disadvantage. As such, reducing early childbearing will have a minimal impact on the lives of highly disadvantaged teens unless those teens use the delay in childbearing to improve their education and labor market prospects.http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/6/4/33causes of teenage childbearingteenage contraceptive useconsequences of teenage childbearing |
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