Cooksey E C
Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27514-3997.
Demography. 1990 May;27(2):207-18.
This article examines the effect of family background factors on first premarital pregnancy resolution for adolescents in the United States. Teenage fertility constitutes a sizable percentage of total fertility, and each outcome has a potentially different type of family structure associated with it. Not only are there marked racial/ethnic differences in the ways such pregnancies are resolved, but the effects of family structure, age at first conception, family size, and working mother also differ between blacks, whites, and Hispanics. Parental education is a highly significant predictor for all groups: the higher the level of education, the less likely the pregnancy will be carried to term.
本文探讨了家庭背景因素对美国青少年首次婚前怀孕结局的影响。青少年生育率在总生育率中占相当大的比例，而且每种结局可能都与不同类型的家庭结构相关。这些怀孕结局的解决方式不仅存在明显的种族/民族差异，而且家庭结构、首次受孕年龄、家庭规模和职业母亲的影响在黑人、白人和西班牙裔之间也有所不同。父母的教育程度对所有群体来说都是一个非常重要的预测因素：教育程度越高，怀孕足月的可能性就越小。
