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What costs are associated with being denied access to abortion ?

University of Maryland Tier One grant funds research

Beyond the question of access to abortion lie the mental health impacts in cases of restricted access

Equivalent risk before and after abortion

The developmental origins of disparities in common mental disorders

The Long-Arm of Conflict: How Timing Shapes the Long-term Impacts of Childhood Exposure to War

Can conditional transfers reduce poverty of the next generation? Evidence from young adults after 15 years of a Mexican program

National and state-specific estimates of the unequal impacts of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision on fertility in the US

Health Contextualized: Inequalities in Physiological Function at the Intersection of Race, Skin Color, and Place

We examined the prospective role of parental support and adult identity profiles in the transition to adulthood on teen mothers’ socioeconomic outcomes in adulthood. Analyses were based on the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, a nationally representative sample of youth followed over a decade. We used data from Waves 1, 3, and 4 (mean age = 28.6, Wave 4). Analytical sample consisted of 981 females who gave birth before age 20. Analysis included design-based regression models. Findings from adjusted regression models showed no statistically significant associations between teen mothers’ parental support and socioeconomic outcomes. While teen mothers have already achieved an important marker of adulthood, variability in adult identity profiles was observed. Teen mothers with older subjective age, regardless of their levels of psychosocial maturation, had higher socioeconomic attainment on some indicators. Findings suggest that teen mothers’ adult identity profiles differentiate their socioeconomic trajectories later in life.