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Treffer: Does Anyone Suffer From Teenage Motherhood? Mental Health Effects of Teen Motherhood in Great Britain Are Small and Homogeneous.

Title:
Does Anyone Suffer From Teenage Motherhood? Mental Health Effects of Teen Motherhood in Great Britain Are Small and Homogeneous.
Authors:
O'Flaherty M; Institute for Social Science Research and Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Children and Families Over the Life Course, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia., Kalucza S; Department of Sociology and Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden., Bon J; School of Mathematical Sciences and Centre for Data Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Source:
Demography [Demography] 2023 Jun 01; Vol. 60 (3), pp. 707-729.
Publication Type:
Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Language:
English
Journal Info:
Publisher: Duke University Press Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0226703 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1533-7790 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00703370 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Demography Subsets: MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s):
Publication: 2021- : Durham, NC : Duke University Press
Original Publication: Washington, etc., Population Assn. of America.
MeSH Terms:
Mental Health* , Mothers*/psychology , Pregnancy in Adolescence*/psychology, Adolescent ; Adult ; Female ; Humans ; Pregnancy ; Bayes Theorem ; Cohort Studies ; United Kingdom/epidemiology
Contributed Indexing:
Keywords: Bayesian methods; Causal inference; Mental health; Statistical machine learning; Teenage parenthood
Entry Date(s):
Date Created: 20230525 Date Completed: 20231130 Latest Revision: 20231201
Update Code:
20250114
DOI:
10.1215/00703370-10788364
PMID:
37226980
Database:
MEDLINE

Weitere Informationen

Teen mothers experience disadvantage across a wide range of outcomes. However, previous research is equivocal with respect to possible long-term mental health consequences of teen motherhood and has not adequately considered the possibility that effects on mental health may be heterogeneous. Drawing on data from the 1970 British Birth Cohort Study, this article applies a novel statistical machine-learning approach-Bayesian Additive Regression Trees-to estimate the effects of teen motherhood on mental health outcomes at ages 30, 34, and 42. We extend previous work by estimating not only sample-average effects but also individual-specific estimates. Our results show that sample-average mental health effects of teen motherhood are substantively small at all time points, apart from age 30 comparisons to women who first became mothers at age 25‒30. Moreover, we find that these effects are largely homogeneous for all women in the sample-indicating that there are no subgroups in the data who experience important detrimental mental health consequences. We conclude that there are likely no mental health benefits to policy and interventions that aim to prevent teen motherhood.
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