Teenage fathers and the fathers of infants of urban, teenage mothers

Bibliographic Data

ID11033672
AuthorsJ B Hardy (Johns Hopkins University), Anne K Duggan (0000-0002-3465-3662, Johns Hopkins University)
Year1988
Volume78
Issue8
Pages919-922
Publication date1988-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.78.8.919
PMID3389428
OpenAlexW2044644019
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited6

Data from Certificates of Live Birth, for recorded resident births in Baltimore in 1983, were used to describe fathers whose child was born to a teenage mother. Four groups were identified: 1) both father and mother were teenagers (12 per cent); 2) only the mother was a teenager (14 per cent); 3) only the father was a teenager (2 per cent); 4) both parents were aged 20 years of above (72 per cent). The fathers in the first three groups appeared at serious educational and financial disadvantage as compared with those where neither parent was a teenager. Within the teenage parent groups, White fathers had lower educational attainment than Black; one in four White fathers was married vs less than 5 per cent of Black. Although limited in scope, the data indicate that disadvantages associated with being a teenage father or the father of an infant born by a teenage mother are clear cut

Developmental psychology · Disadvantage · Educational attainment · Ethnic group · Population · Sociology · Teenage pregnancy · White (mutation) · Child Welfare and Adoption · Demography · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Medicine · Psychology · Pediatrics

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