[Download] "Teen and Non-Marital Childbearing (Research Summaries)" by NBER Reporter * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Teen and Non-Marital Childbearing (Research Summaries)
- Author : NBER Reporter
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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There is a widespread consensus among the American public that rates of teen pregnancy and unintended pregnancies to young, unmarried women are too high. Approximately 30 percent of teenage girls in the United States become pregnant, and 20 percent give birth by age 20. In addition, half of all pregnancies in the United States are reported by the mother as unintended. More than one-third of these (1.1 million pregnancies in 2001) are to unmarried women in their twenties. Rates of teen pregnancy and unplanned pregnancy are higher among young unmarried women, lower income women, women with lower levels of education, and minority women. The concern about rates of teen pregnancy and non-marital pregnancy is driven in large measure by the observed inferior outcomes for children born into disadvantaged situations--in particular, those born to young, unmarried mothers. In this research summary, I describe some of my work on the policy determinants of teen and non-marital childbearing and the socioeconomic differences in rates of teen childbearing and parental time investment in children.
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