The multigenerational effects of adolescent motherhood on school readiness: A population-based retrospective cohort study.

BACKGROUND:Children born to adolescent mothers generally perform more poorly on school readiness assessments than their peers born to adult mothers. It is unknown, however, whether this relationship extends to the grandchildren of these adolescent mothers. This paper examines the multi-generational...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth Wall-Wieler, Janelle Boram Lee, Nathan Nickel, Leslie Leon Roos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211284