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Ooms, Theodora; Herendeen, Lisa – 1989
This document contains a summary of a policy seminar, "Family Centered Social Policy: The Emerging Agenda," a background briefing report on the seminar, and a 50-item reference list. The first section summarizes presentations by K. M. Harris on a Baltimore study of teen mothers' welfare experience; Robert Lerman on young fathers; and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Early Parenthood, Employment Programs, Family Life Education
Download full textSeiler, Naomi – 2002
Many policy proposals related to welfare will have the effect, intended or unintended, of encouraging teens to marry. This paper discusses the implications of teen marriage. Marriage is one route to reducing out-of-wedlock births to teens who become pregnant, but there is reason to believe such marriages are often unstable. A review of the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Rate, Births to Single Women, Early Parenthood
Peer reviewedFurstenberg, Frank F., Jr. – Public Interest, 1988
Critics who advocate encouraging pregnant teenagers to marry are mistaken. Teen marriages are distinctly less stable than marriages that occur after age twenty. Later marriers are less likely to be on welfare and are likely to have more education and fewer children. A hasty marriage makes a bad situation worse. (BJV)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropouts, Early Parenthood, Marital Instability
Peer reviewedVinovskis, Maris A.; Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay – Public Interest, 1988
New studies demonstrate that many teen marriages are more resilient than had previously been believed; current policies promote single parenthood for teen mothers in the face of very little systemic information about young fathers and their potential for being providers, husbands, or parents. Marriage is a feasible option for many pregnant…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropouts, Early Parenthood, Fathers
Peer reviewedRudd, Nancy M.; And Others – Journal of Family Issues, 1990
Analyzed data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to determine whether impact of adolescent childbearing on women's subsequent contact with welfare system differed for Black women and White women (n=1,894). Results supported hypothesized patterns of association between early birth, educational attainment, years spent as single parent, years…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth, Day Care, Early Parenthood
Booth, Alan, Ed.; Crouter, Ann C., Ed.; Shanahan, Michael J., Ed. – 1999
This book contains 17 papers devoted to the following four aspects of the transition to adulthood: effects of alterations in the structure of opportunity; effects of prior experiences in the family; effects of prior experience in the workplace; and career development and marriage formation during a period of rising inequality. The following papers…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Beliefs
