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Barr, Ashley B.; Simons, Ronald L. – Gender and Education, 2012
It is a generally accepted finding in the sociological literature as well as in public discourse that adolescent mothers are less likely than their non-parenting counterparts to graduate high school and to attend college. For several decades, however, researchers have pointed out that the implied causal process from teen motherhood to academic…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Failure, Educational Attainment, Late Adolescents