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Direct linkPlotnick, Robert D.; Garfinkel, Irwin; McLanahan, Sara S.; Ku, Inhoe – Journal of Family Issues, 2004
Stricter child support enforcement may reduce unwed childbearing by raising the costs of fatherhood. The authors investigate this hypothesis using a sample of young women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, to which they add information on state child support enforcement. Models of the probability of a teenage premarital birth and of…
Descriptors: Unwed Mothers, Costs, Adolescents, Pregnancy
Peer reviewedPlotnick, Robert D. – American Sociological Review, 1992
Studies the influence of self-esteem, locus of control, attitudes toward women's family roles, attitudes toward school, educational aspirations, and religiosity on the probability of teenage premarital pregnancy and its resolution. Results for 1,142 white adolescent girls show that self-esteem and attitudes toward schooling and family roles were…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Educational Attitudes, Family Role
