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Sangalang, Bernadette B.; Barth, Richard P.; Painter, John S. – Health & Social Work, 2006
This study examines a case management intervention for first-time pregnant and parenting adolescents. It compares a sample of 1,260 first-time adolescent mothers in the Adolescent Parenting Program (APP) in North Carolina with 1,260 first-time adolescent mothers who did not participate in the program (non-APP). Using birth certificate data,…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Early Parenthood, Intervention, Adolescents
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Needell, Barbara; Barth, Richard P. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1998
A study compared 26,460 maltreated infants who entered foster care between 1989 and 1994 with a random sample of 68,401 other infants. Infants in care were more than twice as likely to have single parents and low birth weight, and twice as likely to have been born with a birth abnormality. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Congenital Impairments