Teenage childbearing as an alternative life-course strategy in multigeneration black families
- 1 June 1990
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Human Nature
- Vol. 1 (2) , 123-143
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02692149
Abstract
This paper summarizes the findings of a three-year exploratory qualitative study of teenage childbearing in 20 low-income multigeneration black families. Teenage childbearing in these families is part of an alternative life-course strategy created in response to socioenvironmental constraints. This alternative life-course strategy is characterized by an accelerated family timetable; the separation of reproduction and marriage; an age-condensed generational family structure; and a grandparental child-rearing system. The implications of these patterns for intergenerational family roles are discussed.Keywords
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