David Henry P, Dytrych Zdenek, Matejcek Zdenek
Transnational Family Research Institute, 8307 Whitman Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817, USA.
Am Psychol. 2003 Mar;58(3):224-9. doi: 10.1037/0003-066x.58.3.224.
The authors followed 220 children born in 1961-1963 to women twice denied abortion for the same pregnancy in Prague (Czech Republic) and 220 pair-matched controls, whose mothers were pair-matched for age and socioeconomic status and the partner's presence in the home. They were medically, psychologically, and socially assessed at ages 9, 14-16, 21-23, 30, and 35. Although differences in psychosocial development between the unwanted study participants and pair-matched controls were not dramatic and changed over time, the differences were consistently in disfavor of the unwanted pregnancy participants. When siblings were used as controls, the findings supported the hypothesis that being born from an unwanted pregnancy is a risk factor for poor mental health in adulthood.
作者对1961年至1963年在布拉格（捷克共和国）因同一妊娠两次被拒绝堕胎的妇女所生的220名儿童，以及220名配对对照儿童进行了跟踪研究。这些对照儿童的母亲在年龄、社会经济地位以及伴侣是否在家等方面进行了配对。研究人员在这些儿童9岁、14 - 16岁、21 - 23岁、30岁和35岁时，对他们进行了医学、心理和社会方面的评估。尽管意外妊娠的研究参与者与配对对照儿童在心理社会发展方面的差异并不显著，且随时间变化，但这些差异始终不利于意外妊娠的参与者。当使用兄弟姐妹作为对照时，研究结果支持了以下假设：意外妊娠出生是成年后心理健康不佳的一个风险因素。
