Axinn W G, Barber J S, Thornton A
Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48106-1248, USA.
Demography. 1998 Nov;35(4):435-43.
We examine the long-term impact of parents' childbearing decisions on children's self-esteem. We focus on subjective aspects of the home environment in the creation of children's internalized sense of self-worth. Unique 23-year family panel data combining measures of mothers' childbearing, mothers' childbearing intentions, and children's self-esteem allow us to examine the overall links between parents' childbearing and children's self-esteem. The results demonstrate that parents' childbearing intentions can have a significant long-term impact on their children's self-esteem. Children who were unintended by their mothers have significantly lower self-esteem 23 years later. Our findings indicate that giving birth to an unintended child can have a long-term negative impact on subjective aspects of the child's well-being, at least in terms of self-esteem. Unintended childbearing has received an increasing amount of research attention in recent years.
我们研究了父母生育决策对孩子自尊的长期影响。我们关注家庭环境的主观方面在塑造孩子内化的自我价值感中的作用。结合母亲生育情况、母亲生育意愿和孩子自尊测量的独特的23年家庭面板数据，使我们能够检验父母生育与孩子自尊之间的整体联系。结果表明，父母的生育意愿会对孩子的自尊产生重大的长期影响。母亲非意愿生育的孩子在23年后自尊显著较低。我们的研究结果表明，生育非意愿孩子会对孩子幸福感的主观方面产生长期负面影响，至少在自尊方面如此。近年来，非意愿生育受到了越来越多的研究关注。
