Some (But Not Much) Progress Toward Understanding Teenage Childbearing

Coyne, Claire A.; D’Onofrio, Brian M.

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“…A host of studies have consistently reported that teenage childbirths are associated with a range of negative outcomes for both mothers and children (Coley & Chase-Lansdale, 1998;Coyne & D'Onfrio, 2012). While most previous research examines the US experiences (Hillis et al, 2004), similar results have also appeared in Europe (Kiernan, 1997;Olausson, Cnattingius, & Haglund, 1999, Olausson, Lichtenstein, & Cnattingius, 2000Wellings, Wadsworth, Johnson, Field, & McDowall, 1999).…”

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confidence: 60%

“…These three variables were entered into the analyses separately for the mother and the father, since they could also be crude markers of intergenerational genetically related vulnerabilities independent of home environment, affecting the risk of antisocial behavior in offspring. Adolescent antisocial behavior is strongly associated with teenage parenthood for both sexes (Coyne & D'Onfrio, 2012;Xie, Cairns, & Cairns, 2001).…”

Section: Risk Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Low maternal education has also been associated with a higher risk of teenage child bearing in off-spring (Coley & Chase-Lansdale, 1998;Coyne & D'Onfrio, 2012). Maternal education refers to educational attainment when the index girl was 17 and was retrieved from the Register of Educational Attainment, and classified as compulsory school (7-9 years), completed secondary (2-3 years after compulsory school) or post-secondary education (university/college degree).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Here, this was indicated as mother of the index girls also a teen mother according to the MultiGeneration Register. Maternal civil status, typically conceptualized as single parenthood, has been reported as a risk factor for teenage child bearing in a number of studies (Coyne & D'Onfrio, 2012). Identified through the Income and Enumeration Survey performed with taxation data annually by Statistics Sweden, single parenthood was measured as whether the mother of an index girl was single when the index girl was 17 years old.…”

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Risk factors for teenage childbirths among child welfare clients: Findings from Sweden

Brännström

Vinnerljung

Hjern

2015

Children and Youth Services Review

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This study contributes to the literature on preventing teenage childbirths by asking whether the pattern and strength of risk factors is the same for high-risk child welfare clients, as for their peers in the majority population. Longitudinal register data on more than 700,000 Swedish females, including around 29,000 child welfare clients, were analyzed by means of linear probability models and calculations of population attributable fractions. Comparisons of effect sizes suggest that the differences in pattern were marginal, but there were notable differences in strength. The girls' school failure was the most prominent risk factor across all groups, also when prevalence was taken into account. In the majority population, the hypothetical reduction of teenage childbirths is on the scale of 30% if this risk factor could be eliminated. In the child welfare subgroups, however, the hypothetical improvement was even larger, around 40%. Reducing the high rate of school failure could thus yield a profound reduction in teenage childbirths in child welfare subgroups, where the incidence of teenage childbirth is substantially higher compared to other peers.

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Section: Risk Factorsmentioning

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Section: Risk Factorsmentioning

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Risk factors for teenage childbirths among child welfare clients: Findings from Sweden

Brännström

Vinnerljung

Hjern

2015

Children and Youth Services Review

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“…Adolescent mothers experience stress typical of new mothers including chronic fatigue, physiological changes, concerns about their children, and changes in relationships with family members, the father of their child, and peers [2][3][4]. However, adolescent mothers typically come from lower SES families [5] and many have histories of adverse childhood events including maltreatment, trauma, and foster care placement [6]. Once they become parents, continued maltreatment, volatile family relationships, and a lack of safe and affordable living conditions place often result in homelessness.…”

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Theoretically-Based Emotion Regulation Strategies Using a Mobile App and Wearable Sensor Among Homeless Adolescent Mothers: Acceptability and Feasibility Study (Preprint)

Leonard¹,

Casarjian²,

Fletcher³

et al. 2017

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Background: Many adolescent mothers (AMs) are parenting young children under highly stressful conditions as they are managing first-time parenthood, poverty, lack of housing, school/work demands, and challenging peer and familial relationships. Increasing AMs effective emotion regulation strategies using 'just-in-time' mobile technology has the potential to intervene at various points in the emotion regulation process to provide support for more adaptive emotional and behavioral regulation in the course of their daily life. Objective: The goal of this paper is to examine the acceptability, feasibility, use patterns, and mechanisms by which the technology fostered AMs adaptive emotion regulation strategies under real-life conditions. Methods: Participants (N=49) were enrolled in the intervention condition of a randomizedcontrolled pilot study of homeless AMs living in group-based shelters. Intervention activities involved a blended intervention consisting of in-person, provider-delivered intervention sessions and the companion Calm Mom technology. Calm Mom consisted of a mobile app and wrist-worn sensorband for the ambulatory measurement and alerting of increased electrodermal activity (EDA), a physiological measurement of stress. We examined logs of mobile app activity and conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with a subsample (N= 10) of participants. Qualitative data analysis was guided by the theoretical frames of the intervention and a technology acceptance models and included an analysis of emerging themes and concepts. Results: Participants used one or more elements of the technology on average, 44.11% of days they had the Calm Mom technology (SD = 24.82). Overall, participants indicated that one or more of the elements Calm Mom supported their ability to effectively regulate their emotions in the course of their daily life in ways that were consonant with the intervention's theoretical model. For many AMs, the app became an integral tool for managing stress. Due to technical challenges, fewer participants received sensorband alerts however, those that received alerts reported high levels of acceptability as the technology helped them to identify their emotions and supported them in engaging in more adaptive behaviors during real-life stressful situations with their children, peers, and family members. Conclusions: Calm Mom is a promising technology for providing theoretically driven behavioral intervention strategies during real-life stressful moments among a highly vulnerable population. Future research efforts will involve addressing technology challenges and refining tailoring algorithms for implementation in larger scale studies.

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Why is young maternal age at first childbirth a risk factor for persistent delinquency in their male offspring? Examining the role of family and parenting factors

Vugt

Loeber

Pardini

2015

Criminal Behav Ment Health

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Background Children born to mothers who were younger than average at their first childbirth are at increased risk for future persistent delinquent behaviour, but explanations for this remain unclear. Aims Our aim was to identify possible family and parenting variables that may help explain this relationship. We hypothesised that parental stress, large number of children in the home, low socioeconomic status (including neighbourhood problems) and poor parenting would account for the link between early first motherhood and their offspring's delinquency. Methods Four hundred and sixty-two boys were selected from the Pittsburgh Youth Study, a longitudinal study of a random sample of school boys in Pittsburgh, initially assessed half-yearly and then annually from 7 to 19 years of age, using self-reporting and other reporting methods. Indirect effect models were used to test relationships between variables. Results Higher levels of parental stress, poorer parent-child communication and caring for a larger number of children all mediated the relationship between maternal youth and persistent delinquency by their boys, but only explained about 20% of it. Discussion At least partial explanations of the relationship between a mother's age at first childbirth and persistent delinquency in her male offspring suggest that future research should test whether early interventions with younger mothers to decrease their

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Some (But Not Much) Progress Toward Understanding Teenage Childbearing

Cited by 76 publications

References 87 publications

Risk factors for teenage childbirths among child welfare clients: Findings from Sweden

Risk factors for teenage childbirths among child welfare clients: Findings from Sweden

Theoretically-Based Emotion Regulation Strategies Using a Mobile App and Wearable Sensor Among Homeless Adolescent Mothers: Acceptability and Feasibility Study (Preprint)

Why is young maternal age at first childbirth a risk factor for persistent delinquency in their male offspring? Examining the role of family and parenting factors

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