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The Intergenerational Effects of Early Childbearing


  Author: Robert Haveman, Barbara Wolfe, Elaine Peterson
Publisher: Institute for Research on Poverty
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Document Date:                  August 01, 1995
Category: Children > Children Born Out of Wedlock
Related Categories:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Motherhood
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Pregnancy
Education > Educational Attainment
Family Economics > Employment/Unemployment
 

This report looks at long-term outcomes for children of teenage mothers and finds that these children are more likely to have low education, be unemployed, give birth as teenagers, and give birth out of wedlock.

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