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Direct linkHouseknecht, Sharon K.; Lewis, Susan K. – Family Relations, 2005
This investigation examines whether access to social capital reduces the chance that teens will cohabit or have a nonmaritally conceived birth. Using data from a nationally representative panel study of eighth-grade girls and their parents, we hypothesize that girls who have (and whose families have) dense community ties as well as greater access…
Descriptors: Females, Adolescents, Grade 8, Early Parenthood
