BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Risk-taking behavior has been shown to be associated with adolescent pregnancy or childbearing. However, the specific risk-taking behavioral factors and the extent to which they are associated with adolescent childbearing is less clear. The purpose of this study was to determine the risk-taking behavioral factors associated with adolescent childbearing. METHODS In this ...

To understand the consequences of adolescent pregnancy and childbearing on siblings, a study compares 309 younger brothers and sisters of pregnant, parenting and never-pregnant teenagers. Compared with the younger siblings of never-pregnant teenagers, the younger sisters of pregnant teenagers see school and career as less important, are more accepting of adolescent childbearing, perceive younge...

CONTEXT In recent studies, the effects of teenage childbearing on the schooling of young women have been smaller than those in earlier research. The discrepancy has been attributed to the use in the later studies of controls for unmeasured differences between young women who start childbearing early and those who do not, but could instead reflect changes in the effect of early childbearing over...

The consequences of teen childbearing for the future well-being of young women remain controversial. In this paper, we model and estimate the relationship between early childbearing and human capital investment, and its effect on wages in early adulthood. Taking advantage of a large set of potential instruments for fertility—principally stateand county-level indicators of the costs of fertility...

Introduction: Iran experienced a dramatic fertility decline during recent decades. There was also an indication of a shift towards later childbearing from 2000. Past research on fertility has shown that the education variable is the most important determinant of fertility behaviors. However, the impact of education on fertility timing in Iran has been less considered. Methods: In a cross secti...

Article: Teaching about pregnancy in a childbearing (ie, maternity or obstetrical) nursing course can be challenging because experiences with pregnant families are not easy to find. Educators are aware that active learning is more effective than passive learning, but when hands-on learning opportunities are not readily available, role playing or simulations are useful. While redesigning an unde...

Premarital childbearing is common in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, and may become increasingly so with the rise in women's age at first marriage. These trends are concerning given the severe childhood health consequences associated with being born premaritally. However, women's could condition the experience of having a premarital birth in a way that lessens its consequences for children. E...

Common wisdom states that teenage childbearing reduces schooling, labour market experience and adult wages. However, the decisions to be a teenage mother, to quit school, and be less attached to the labour market might all stem from some personal or family characteristics. Using the National Child Development Study (NCDS), we find that in Britain teenage childbearing decreases the probability o...

Mental illnesses associated with childbearing add unforeseen complexities to prepartum care or postpartum recovery as well as to the responsibilities of marriage and parenthood. While the onset of mental illness at such a time may seem especially tragic, its obstetric background provides ancillary data that may help to identify causative elements. Comparative data are available from the informa...