Parental Investment Prospects and Teen Birth Rates of Blacks and Whites in American Metropolitan Areas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24315431 |
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| Authors | Nigel Barber (Bemidji State University and Birmingham Southern College) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 183-199 |
| Publication date | 2002-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cross-Cultural Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1069-3971 • E-ISSN: 1552-3578 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10697102036003001 |
| OpenAlex | W2100390105 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
Parental investment theory was used to identify predictors of nonmarital teen birth rates for Blacks and Whites in U.S. metropolitan areas. Regression models predicted Black teen births, White teen births, and both together using indices of parental investment (male income, unemployment rates, marital opportunity for women) with various controls. White teen births decreased with increased marital opportunity for women, and the same was true of Blacks, although these effects were comparatively small. In the combined model, parental investment measures and the control variables accounted for 70% of the variance in nonmarital teen birth rates. Adding race as a variable did not significantly increase the variance explained, indicating that Black-White differences in nonmarital teen reproduction can be explained by differences in parental investment prospects. Early nonmarital reproduction can be seen as an adaptive response to diminished prospects for parental investment.
adolescent pregnancy · black-white disparities · metropolitan areas · out-of-wedlock births · parental investment theory · racial disparities · reproductive strategies · teen birth rates · Unemployment rate · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Family Dynamics and Relationships
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