Psychosocial aspects of Mexican-American, white, and black teenage pregnancy

Felice, Marianne E.; Shragg, G.Paul; James, M.; Hollingsworth, Dorothy R.

doi:10.1016/0197-0070(87)90004-0

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“…Yet the amount of contact between adolescent fathers and their children is much greater than has been commonly assumed, especially among African-American fathers (Furstenberg, Brooks-Gunn, & Morgan, 1987;Furstenberg, Jr., 1976;Marsiglio, 1987). Fathering roles are influenced by sub-cultural norms and familial supports which could explain the greater tendency for African-American adolescent fathers as compared to White fathers to remain in and complete high school and Mexican-American fathers to marry their children's mothers (Felice, Shragg, James, & Hollingsworth, 1987). Race/ethnic differences have also been reported in the wanting of pregnancies among adolescent mothers with Hispanics (Smith, McGill, & Wait, 1987) more often than other races or ethnicities and African-Americans least likely (Ford, 1983;Mott, 1986) to indicate pregnancies were wanted.…”

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Absent Fathers as Providers: Race/Ethnic Differences in Support for Adolescent Mothers

Wiemann

Agurcia

Rickert

et al. 2006

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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Race/ethnic differences in the prevalence of and characteristics associated with low support provided by fathers of babies born to pregnant adolescents were examined among 719 adolescent mothers who were interviewed postpartum. Low support was reported by 41.9% of AfricanAmerican, 26.2% of Mexican-American, and 19.4% of Caucasian adolescent mothers. Across race/ethnic subgroups, fathers who provided limited support were characterized by chronic substance use, gang or police involvement, or partner-directed violence. Policies advocating universal father involvement without concomitant programs designed to address their many needs may ultimately be detrimental to the welfare of mother and child.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Absent Fathers as Providers: Race/Ethnic Differences in Support for Adolescent Mothers

Wiemann

Agurcia

Rickert

et al. 2006

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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“…A positive coefficient for the AFDC guarantee indicates that higher guarantees were associated with premarital first births at younger ages, whereas a negative coefficient indicates that higher guarantees were associated with premarital first births occurring at later ages or not at all before age 25. The effects of family‐level control variables were allowed to vary by race because the motivations for and the determinants and patterns of premarital childbearing vary by race (Bumpass & McLanahan 1989; Felice, Shragg, James, & Hollingsworth, 1987; Forste & Tienda, 1996; Henly, 1993, 1995; Wu, 1996).…”

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Welfare, Premarital Childbearing, and the Role of Normative Climate: 1968–1994

Butler

2002

J of Marriage and Family

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ࡗ Welfare, Premarital Childbearing, and the Role of Normative Climate: 1968Climate: -1994 Nationally representative, longitudinal survey data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics were used to examine the conditions under which welfare benefit levels affected the likelihood that low-income women age 15-24 bore their first child prior to marriage. Benefit levels had a positive effect on premarital childbearing during the 1980s and early 1990s but not during the 1970s or late 1960s. The effect of benefit levels was also stronger where community attitudes toward premarital sex were more tolerant than where attitudes were less tolerant, but this did not account for the varying effect of benefit levels over time. The study introduces a new way of measuring normative climate using attitudinal data from the General Social Surveys.

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“…These dynamics are likely to differ among racial groups. According to a study by Felice, Shragg, and Hollingsworth (14) in San Diego, black pregnant teenagers reported positive relationships with their mothers, Mexican-American teenagers were more often married at conception or delivery, and white teenagers were more often from families with a history of psychiatric illness, parental death, or runaway behavior.…”

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Health policy and the family: Agenda for the year 2000.

Gilliss

Doherty

Needle

et al. 1989

Family Systems Medicine

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Efforts are under way in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to develop national health objectives for the year 2000. A follow-up to objectives originally generated from the 1979 surgeon general's report, Healthy People and Promoting Health/Preventing Disease: Objectives for the Nation, the new objectives will guide federal policy through the year 2000. The authors of this article identify three prevalent and significant health problems for which little progress has been made and suggest that the new objectives must address the family as a significant context and contributor to these problems.

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Psychosocial aspects of Mexican-American, white, and black teenage pregnancy

Cited by 29 publications

References 11 publications

Absent Fathers as Providers: Race/Ethnic Differences in Support for Adolescent Mothers

Absent Fathers as Providers: Race/Ethnic Differences in Support for Adolescent Mothers

Welfare, Premarital Childbearing, and the Role of Normative Climate: 1968–1994

Health policy and the family: Agenda for the year 2000.

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