Addo Fenaba R, Sassler Sharon, Williams Kristi
Department of Consumer Science, 4204 Nancy Nicholas Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53703;
Department of Policy Analysis and Management, 297 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853;
J Marriage Fam. 2016 Oct;78(5):1252-1268. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12360. Epub 2016 Aug 19.
Using data from the linked Children and Young Adult sample (N = 2,865) of the NLSY79, we reexamined the association of maternal age and marital status at birth with youth high school completion, assessing multiple age categories and race/ethnic variations. Youth born to older teen mothers were no more likely to graduate from high school than those born to the youngest teen mothers. Although delaying childbirth to young adulthood (age 20-24) was associated with greater odds of children's high school completion compared to the earliest teen births, those born to young adult mothers were disadvantaged compared to those born to mothers age 25 or older. Being born to an unmarried mother was associated with lower odds of high school completion but this did not fully explain the estimated effect of maternal age at birth. We found no evidence that maternal age at birth more strongly predicted high school graduation for White compared to Latino or Black youth.
利用全国青年纵向调查1979年（NLSY79）中关联的儿童和青年样本数据（N = 2865），我们重新审视了母亲生育时的年龄和婚姻状况与青年高中完成情况之间的关联，评估了多个年龄类别以及种族/族裔差异。与最年轻的青少年母亲所生的孩子相比，年龄较大的青少年母亲所生的孩子高中毕业的可能性并没有更高。尽管与最早的青少年生育相比，推迟生育到青年期（20 - 24岁）与孩子完成高中学业的几率更高相关，但与25岁及以上母亲所生的孩子相比，青年期母亲所生的孩子处于劣势。由未婚母亲生育与高中毕业几率较低相关，但这并不能完全解释生育时母亲年龄的估计影响。我们没有发现证据表明，与拉丁裔或黑人青年相比，白人青年出生时母亲的年龄对高中毕业的预测更强。
