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  • Title: African American daughter-mother relations and teenage pregnancy: two faces of premarital teenage pregnancy.
    Author: Scott JW.
    Journal: West J Black Stud; 1993; 17(2):73-81. PubMed ID: 12346138.
    Abstract:
    A sample of 153 school-age mothers attending a public school program in an American city were interviewed about their premarital sex behavior, pregnancy experience, and relationship with their mothers. The sample comprised 67% Blacks, 33% Whites, and a few Hispanics. The literature had revealed that two-parent families were more successful in maintaining positive mother-daughter relationships, that negative mother-daughter relationships were correlated with sexual acting out and early teenage pregnancy, and that negative relationships inhibited daughters' ego development and emulation of mothers. The sample included 21% from continuous one-parent homes, 44% from continuous two-parent homes, and 35% from reconstituted families. 102 girls were from Black families: 26% from continuous one-parent families, 43% from continuous two-parent families, and 27% from reconstituted families. The family composition for White girls was respectively 9%, 44%, and 47%. The mean age at first pregnancy was as follows: 15.9 years for White families and 15.7 years for Black families. For Black families, a negative daughter-mother relationship from 10 years onward was consistently associated with lower pregnancy ages compared to positive relationships. The lowest pregnant adolescent age was 15.3 years among Black adolescents and was associated with a negative mother-daughter relationship which was always negative. For White adolescents, the lowest pregnancy age averaged 15.0 years among adolescents whose positive relationship shifted to a negative one after 10 years. The reverse shift from a negative to a positive relationship was related to the highest average age at pregnancy of 16.0 years among White adolescents. The highest average age at first pregnancy was found among Black adolescents who had a negative relationship before the age of 10 years and a positive one thereafter. For continuous two-parent families, a negative relationship before and after 10 years of age was related to an average age at pregnancy of 15.0 years. Relationships that shifted after 10 years of age to a positive one had an average age at pregnancy of 17.5 years. Continuous positive and continuous negative relationships were related to an average age at first pregnancy of 15.3 years. The rank order correlation was 0.79. Adolescents in negative relationships were found to date later, get pregnant earlier, and had more sex partners, lower parental approval of dating, and limited parental emotional support.
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