Males M, Chew K S
School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, CA 927127-5150, USA.
Am J Public Health. 1996 Apr;86(4):565-8. doi: 10.2105/ajph.86.4.565.
Officals, media coverage and prevention programs have assumed that fathers of infants born to US school-age (10-18 years old) mothers are school-age peers. This study analyzes fathers' ages in 46 500 California births to school-age mothers in 1993, for which 85% of the fathers' ages were stated and whose distribution is similar to that of less complete national samples. Adult, postschool men father two thirds of the infants born to school-age mothers and average 4.2 years older than the senior-high mothers and 6.7 years older than the junior-high mothers. The extensive involvement of adult males in both school-age motherhood and its precursors represents a significant, undiscussed factor deserving greater attention.
官员、媒体报道及预防项目一直认为，美国学龄（10至18岁）母亲所生婴儿的父亲是同龄的学生。本研究分析了1993年加利福尼亚州46500例学龄母亲生育情况中父亲的年龄，其中85%的父亲年龄有记录，其分布与全国不太完整的样本相似。成年且已毕业的男性是学龄母亲所生婴儿三分之二的父亲，他们的平均年龄比高中母亲大4.2岁，比初中母亲大6.7岁。成年男性广泛参与学龄母亲生育及其相关情况，这是一个重大且未被讨论的因素，值得更多关注。
