Adolescent Health

Motherhood lessens teen delinquency, study shows

Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 25th, 2003

Unmarried adolescent mothers who keep their babies have lower rates of juvenile delinquency than girls who have abortions or give up their babies for adoption, according to new research.

"The transition to parenthood, unlike other types of pregnancy resolution, encourages adolescent females to assume a more responsible adult role that is ultimately incongruent with delinquent activity," says Esther I. Wilder, PhD, of Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and two colleagues writing in the journal The Sociological Quarterly.

Wilder and Trina Hope, PhD, of the University of Oklahoma, and Toni Terling Watt,...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2003-12-25)

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