Millar W J, Wadhera S
Health and Vital Statistics Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa.
Can J Public Health. 1997 Sep-Oct;88(5):333-6. doi: 10.1007/BF03403901.
This article uses vital statistics relating to births by Canadian mothers between 1992 and 1994 to examine the distribution of age of father by age of mother at the birth of the child. Over 77% of births to teenage mothers involved males who were older than the mother. At the time of birth of the child, the mean difference between age of the teenage mother and the father was 4.1 years, compared with a mean of 2.6 years for all mothers and fathers. For mothers below the age of 18 years, 37% of partners were within 2 years of the woman's age, 39% were 3 to 5 years older, and 24% were six or more years older. Family planning and sex education programs directed at the prevention of teenage pregnancy, especially if these programs are given in the elementary or high school system, would not necessarily reach older males, who make up the majority of partners in teenage pregnancies.
本文使用1992年至1994年加拿大母亲生育的生命统计数据，来研究孩子出生时父亲年龄按母亲年龄的分布情况。超过77%的青少年母亲生育的孩子，其父亲年龄比母亲大。在孩子出生时，青少年母亲与父亲的平均年龄差为4.1岁，而所有父母的平均年龄差为2.6岁。对于18岁以下的母亲，37%的伴侣年龄与女方相差在2岁以内，39%的伴侣比女方大3至5岁，24%的伴侣比女方大6岁或以上。针对预防青少年怀孕的计划生育和性教育项目，尤其是如果这些项目在小学或高中系统开展，不一定能覆盖年龄较大的男性，而这些男性是青少年怀孕中伴侣的大多数。
