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Peer reviewedUpchurch, Dawn M.; And Others – American Sociological Review, 1993
Replies to "Adolescent Mothers Drop Out" (Douglas K. Anderson, 1993). It is indeed true that women who begin childbearing as adolescents achieve less schooling than do women who postpone or forego childbearing, but debate about why continues. It is argued that the apparent impact of early childbearing on education may result from a common set of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth, Causal Models, Disadvantaged Youth
