Attitudes toward childbearing among young parents

Article Abstract:

Research based on data obtained from a subsample of 412 White and African Americans has looked at positive and negative attitudes among young parents towards their own children and their childbearing experience. Young parents who regarded childbearing positively were more likely to be White, female, married and to have felt positively about the pregnancy which resulted in the birth of their first child. Regrets about childbearing were most frequently expressed by parents who had three or more children, were Black and had very materialistic values.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Teenage parents

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The family and peer relations of black adolescents

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A study by the Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University, used data from interviews conducted in 1982 with 942 black and white, male and female adolescents, to reveal that during adolescence blacks show greater intimacy with their families, and less with peers, than whites. This contradicts the findings of poorly focused research which suggest that during adolescence black youths are more peer-dependent because of the lack of intimacy in the family.

Research, African Americans, Family, African American youth

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Harsh physical discipline in childhood and violence in later romantic involvements: the mediating role of problem behaviors

Article Abstract:

The effect of being exposed to strict physical discipline in childhood and engaging in problem behaviours in adolescence and young adulthood on experiencing and using intimate violence is considered. A model is suggested in which problem behaviours in adolescence and young adulthood are the main mediators of the connection between child abuse and intimate violence.

Psychological aspects, Discipline of children, Child discipline, Dating violence

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