Parental Behavior of Adolescent Mothers

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 494-503
Author(s):  
Arthur B. Elster ◽  
Elizabeth R. McAnarney ◽  
Michael E. Lamb
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Mothers ◽  
Adolescent Parents ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Parental Behavior ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Adolescent Parenting ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Excessive Stress

The results of the studies reviewed lead to the conclusion that some adolescent parents are faced with excessive stress, have an inadequate social support network, lack adequate knowledge of child development, are developmentally immature, and possess inappropriate child-rearing attitudes. The lack of rigorous, well-controlled studies, however, makes these conclusions tentative at best. Each of the socioeconomic and psychological factors listed above, in addition to innate infant characteristics, affects parental behavior. Too few studies have been done to state conclusively which of these factors have major effects on adolescent parenting. Preliminary results would suggest, however, that adolescent and adult mothers interact differently with their children. The reasons why this occurs and the significance of this difference are not presently known. Although there are conflicting results, it appears as though children of adolescent parents are at a slightly increased risk for child abuse, but not suboptimal intellectual development, when compared to children of adult mothers.

Punitive discipline and child behavior problems in Chinese-American immigrant families: The moderating effects of indigenous child-rearing ideologies

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 520-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joey J. Fung ◽  
Anna S. Lau
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Child Behavior ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Parental Behavior ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Child Behavior Problems ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Punitive Discipline

In a sample of 107 Chinese immigrant families we examined whether cultural child-rearing beliefs moderated the association between parents’ use of punitive discipline and children’s behavioral adjustment. Immigrant parents and their children aged 7 to 17 years completed measures of parental discipline and child behavior problems. Parents also reported on indigenous Chinese child-rearing ideologies regarding shaming and training as strategies for raising competent and moral children. Results of hierarchical regression models conducted with parent-reported data indicated that the negative effects of punitive discipline on child behavior problems were not apparent when parents adhered to training and shaming ideologies. However, the buffering effects of training ideologies were more robust and consistent than shaming. The findings provide some evidence that the discipline—behavior problem link may be moderated by cultural context of caregiver psychology which shapes the meaning and implications of parental behavior.

scholarly journals Gestationalism and the Rights of Adolescent Mothers

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-254
Author(s):  
Teresa Baron
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Adolescent Mothers ◽  
Adolescent Parents ◽  
Moral Rights ◽  
Parental Rights ◽  
Full Complement ◽  
The Right ◽  
Newborn Children

AbstractIn this paper, I explore the ways in which consideration of adolescent parents forces us to confront and question common presuppositions about parental rights. In particular, I argue that recognising the right of adolescent mothers not to be forcibly separated from their newborn children justifies rejecting the notion that parental rights are (a) all acquired in the same manner and (b) acquired as a ‘bundle’ of concomitant moral rights. I conclude that children and adolescents who conceive and give birth have some parental rights concerning their newborn children – in particular, the right not to be forcibly separated from those children – even if they do not have the ‘full complement’ of parental rights as we generally characterise these.

Perceived Maternal Child-Rearing Behavior among Disabled and Non-Disabled Adolescents

1977 ◽  
Vol 44 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1095-1105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis C. Harper
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Behavior ◽  
Parental Behavior ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Severity Of Disability ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Partial Correlations ◽  
Main Effects ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The purposes of this study were (a) to contrast the reported perceptions of maternal rearing using the Child's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory of 70 disabled (cerebral palsied) and 70 non-disabled adolescents of similar sex, age, intelligence, and socioeconomic status and (b) to evaluate the impact of severity of physical impairment within the disabled group. Analyses of variance were completed using group (disabled/controls) as one dimension and sex as the within-groups source. Partial correlations were used to assess the relationship between severity of incapacitation and perceived maternal behavior. Of the 18 main effects, two were significant, suggesting that the non-disabled perceived their mothers as more possessive and intrusive than did the disabled. Males perceived their mothers as significantly more lax in discipline and allowing more autonomy than did females. Severity of disability was only modestly related to perceived maternal behavior. With this sample of disabled adolescents it was suggested that a physically handicapping condition and its severity may be of more limited influence in the maternal rearing process than assumed.

Parental Factors as Predictors of Dating Violence Among Latinx Adolescent Mothers

2019 ◽  
pp. 088626051986226
Author(s):  
Lara Hoss ◽  
Michelle L. Toews ◽  
Norma Perez-Brena ◽  
Eric Goodcase ◽  
Mark Feinberg
Keyword(s):  
Dating Violence ◽  
Adolescent Mothers ◽  
Parental Stress ◽  
Adolescent Parents ◽  
Violence Victimization ◽  
The Past ◽  
Frequency Of Contact ◽  
Violence Perpetration ◽  
One Act

The purpose of our study was to examine how parental stress and coparenting relationship quality were related to dating violence perpetration and victimization among 114 Latinx adolescent mothers. We hypothesized that higher levels of parental stress and lower coparenting quality would be associated with increased dating violence perpetration and victimization. Prior to running a path analysis to test our hypotheses, we examined how frequently the Latinx adolescent mothers in our sample reported perpetrating at least one act of psychological or physical abuse against their partner in the past month. We found that 84.3% of the mothers in our study had perpetrated at least one act of violence against their partner in the past month and 74.7% reported they had been the victim of at least one act of violence by their partner in the past month. After accounting for frequency of contact with the father of their child, we found Latinx adolescent mothers were more likely to perpetrate abuse against, as well as be the victim of abuse by, their partner if they had a lower quality coparenting relationship. However, parental stress was not associated with dating violence perpetration or victimization after accounting for frequency of contact. Our findings show the importance of the quality of the coparenting relationship, above and beyond parental stress, as a predictor of dating violence victimization and perpetration, thus highlighting the importance of educating adolescent parents about how to navigate the coparenting relationship.

scholarly journals Associations between premorbid intellectual performance, early-life exposures and early-onset schizophrenia

2002 ◽  
Vol 181 (4) ◽  
pp. 298-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gunnell ◽  
Glynn Harrison ◽  
Finn Rasmussen ◽  
Dimitris Fouskakis ◽  
Per Tynelius
Keyword(s):  
Early Onset ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Complete Data ◽  
Intellectual Performance ◽  
Affective Psychoses ◽  
Admission Data ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Early Life Exposures

BackgroundImpaired intellectual performance is associated with an increased risk of schizophrenia.AimsTo investigate whether this association is due to the influence of prenatal and early childhood exposures on both intellectual development and the risk of schizophrenia.MethodCohort of 197 613 Swedish male conscripts with linked birth, census and hospital admission data together with five measures of verbal and non-verbal intellectual performance recorded at conscription. Results 109 643 subjects had complete data; over a mean 5-year follow-up, 60 developed schizophrenia and 92 developed other non-affective psychoses. Poor scores for each of the five tests were associated with 3-to 14-fold increased risk of psychosis, particularly schizophrenia. Controlling for birth-related exposures, including birth weight, and parental education did not attenuate these associations.Results109 643 subjects had complete data; over amean 5-year follow-up,60 developed schizophrenia and 92 developed other non-affective psychoses. Poor scores for each of the five testswere associatedwith 3-to 14-foldincreasedrisk of psychosis, particularly schizophrenia. Controlling for birth-related exposures, including birthweight, and parental education didnot attenuate these associations.ConclusionsPoor intellectual performance at 18 years of age is associated with early-onset psychotic disorder. Associations do not appear to be confounded by prenatal adversity or childhood circumstances, as indexed by parental education.

scholarly journals Nutrient partitioning during adolescent pregnancy

Reproduction ◽  
2001 ◽  
pp. 347-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Wallace ◽  
D Bourke ◽  
P Da Silva ◽  
R Aitken
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Pregnancy Outcome ◽  
Adolescent Mothers ◽  
Fetal Growth ◽  
Adverse Pregnancy Outcome ◽  
Late Gestation ◽  
Gravid Uterus ◽  
Maternal Body ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Nutrient Partitioning

Human adolescent mothers have an increased risk of delivering low birth weight and premature infants with high mortality rates within the first year of life. Studies using a highly controlled adolescent sheep paradigm demonstrate that, in young growing females, the hierarchy of nutrient partitioning during pregnancy is altered to promote growth of the maternal body at the expense of the gradually evolving nutrient requirements of the gravid uterus and mammary gland. Thus, overnourishing adolescent dams throughout pregnancy results in a major restriction in placental mass, and leads to a significant decrease in birth weight relative to adolescent dams receiving a moderate nutrient intake. High maternal intakes are also associated with increased rates of spontaneous abortion in late gestation and, for ewes delivering live young, with a reduction in the duration of gestation and in the quality and quantity of colostrum accumulated prenatally. As the adolescent dams are of equivalent age at the time of conception, these studies indicate that nutritional status during pregnancy rather than biological immaturity predisposes the rapidly growing adolescents to adverse pregnancy outcome. Nutrient partitioning between the maternal body and gravid uterus is putatively orchestrated by a number of endocrine hormones and, in this review, the roles of both maternal and placental hormones in the regulation of placental and fetal growth in this intriguing adolescent paradigm are discussed. Impaired placental growth, particularly of the fetal component of the placenta, is the primary constraint to fetal growth during late gestation in the overnourished dams and nutritional switch-over studies indicate that high nutrient intakes during the second two-thirds of pregnancy are most detrimental to pregnancy outcome. In addition, it may be possible to alter the nutrient transport function of the growth-restricted placenta in that the imposition of a catabolic phase during the final third of pregnancy in previously rapidly growing dams results in a modest increase in lamb birth weight.

Strengthening Social Support: Health Professionals' Views of the Health Care Needs of Adolescent Mothers

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Breheny ◽  
Christine Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Adolescent Mothers ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Organisational Support ◽  
Professional Perspective

AbstractHealth care and health outcomes for adolescent mothers and their children may be a result of a complex interaction between socioeconomic, psychological, and familial factors. To examine a health professional perspective on the important issues in providing health care for adolescent mothers, transcripts of seventeen interviews with health professionals were analysed. Social support was considered an important aspect influencing the health of adolescent mothers and their children. This included family support, peer support and organisational support. Opportunities for health professionals to promote good social support for young mothers include role modelling supportive care and supporting adolescents' decision making, providing referrals to peer support groups, and understanding barriers to accessing organisational support. The best outcome for adolescent mothers is when their role as mother is supported by the family and wider support network.

scholarly journals The impact of parenthood on alcohol consumption trajectories: Variations as a function of timing of parenthood, familial alcoholism, and gender

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 661-682 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Little ◽  
Elizabeth Handley ◽  
Eileen Leuthe ◽  
Laurie Chassin
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Adolescent Mothers ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Adolescent Parents ◽  
Transition To Parenthood ◽  
Emerging Adult ◽  
Age Related ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe current study tested the impact of the transition to parenthood on growth in alcohol consumption from early adolescence through emerging adulthood. We measured age-related discontinuity in trajectories of alcohol consumption associated with timing of the parenthood transition, above and beyond the effects of accrued educational status, gender, and time-varying marital status. We also examined the impact of a familial selection factor for the transmission of alcohol use problems, family history density of alcoholism (FHD), on both risk for adolescent parenthood and risk for adolescent parents' continuity in alcohol consumption after the parent transition within a mediation structural equation model. Premature timing of parenthood had a distinct effect on emerging adult alcohol trajectories. Although participants who became parents as emerging adults showed role-related decline in alcohol consumption, those who became parents during adolescence showed a role-related rise in emerging adult alcohol consumption. Gender moderated adolescent parents' role-related growth in emerging adult alcohol consumption. Adolescent fathers showed an adverse rise in alcohol consumption after becoming parents, whereas adolescent mothers' alcohol consumption did not change significantly. FHD was related to high adolescent alcohol consumption, which mediated risk for the incidence of early parenthood. Finally, the adverse effect of FHD on trajectories of emerging adult alcohol use was mediated by a dual pathway: (a) developmental continuity of conduct problems and (b) early transition to parenthood.

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