According to a recent study of how women manage maternity in the workplace, more than 70% of pregnant employees were still employed at the same job 6 months after childbirth (compared to 80% of young women who had not been pregnant). A study of 324 randomly selected employed women in the Midwest yielded similar results. Six months after giving…

This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to investigate the effects of early motherhood on the academic and behavioral outcomes of these mothers' children. The NLSY follows 12,686 young people who were age 14-21 years in 1979 with annual or biannual interviews. African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and poor…

Findings support the main expectation that among the daughters it is the youngest, while among the sons it is the eldest, who is in the most favorable position regarding educational and occupational mobility chances. (Author)

Results failed to substantiate the notion that firstborns are more sensitive than are later borns to the socialization efforts of authorities. (Author)

Describes a nutrition education packet for natural childbirth (Lamaze) classes. The packet consists of four 15- to 20-minute lessons, each containing goal, objectives, questions (with answers), activities, and pamphlets. List of goals and sample activities are included. (JN)

Considers multicollinearity in nonrecursive models, misspecification of models, discrepancies between attitudes and behavior, and differences between static and dynamic models as explanations for contradictory information on the causal relationship between fertility and female employment. Finds that initially fertility affects employment but that,…

Depicts enrollment in grades K-12 from 1950-2000 and projected population changes into the 1990s, and discusses the methodology for projecting changes. (SK)

Evaluates the effects of continuous lumbar epidural anesthesia on the newborn and on the developing mother- infant relationship. (Author/MP)

The author reviews some selected literature that reports higher academic achievement for first-borns and findings that large enough age gaps between siblings can offset first-born advantages in achievement. (Editor/SJL)

Fear of death was found to be positively and significantly correlated with fertility experiences, desires, and intentions, but only among respondents whose formal education did not exceed the completion of high school. Males demonstrated megadeath fear with respect to desired and intended fertility. (Author)