Presents four conceptual models of familial adaptation to adolescent pregnancy discerned from interviews with African-American adolescent mothers (n=119) and their mothers (n=103): Parental Replacement; Parental Supplement; Supported Primary Parent; and Parental Apprentice. Claims framework provides method for better understanding of triadic…

Examined whether intervention provided to low-income parents of firstborn children produced delayed benefits for later children by studying younger siblings of children in a family-support program. Found that intervention group siblings had better school attendance, were less likely to need remedial services, and were more likely to be making…

Reviewed the medical and school records of 230 adolescent mothers to determine the effects of an alternative public school for pregnant teenagers. Found that pregnant mothers who did not attend the school until later in their pregnancy were more likely to deliver a preterm, low-birthweight infant than were mothers who began attending earlier. (MDM)