Parent-child relationships, parental attitudes towards sex, and birth outcomes among adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

To examine how parent-child relationships, parental control, and parental attitudes towards sex were related to pregnancy outcomes among adolescent mothers.

Design

Prospective cohort study. Parental report of relationship satisfaction, disapproval of adolescent having sex, discussion around sexual health, and sexual communication attitudes, and adolescent report of relationship satisfaction, parental control, and parental disapproval of sex were examined as predictors of self-reported birth outcomes. Weighted multivariable linear regression models were run incorporating interactions by race.

Setting

United States.

Participants

632 females who participated in Waves I and IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), a n

SUBMITTER: Harville EW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4160400 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature