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Peer reviewedKalil, Ariel; Kunz, James – Child Development, 2002
This longitudinal study tested the contribution of age and marital status at first birth to depressive symptomatology in early adulthood. Findings indicated that unmarried teenage childbearers displayed higher levels of depressive symptoms than women who first gave birth as married adults. The psychological health of married teenage mothers in…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Births to Single Women, Comparative Analysis, Depression (Psychology)
