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This finding looks at the relationship between parental supervision and teen pregnancy.

African American adolescent females who reported that their parents did not closely supervise the teens’ dating relationships and activities (e.g. who they were with, where they went, how late they stayed out) had rates of pregnancy 64% higher than similar females who reported that their parents did closely supervise their early dating behaviors.

Sample or Data Description
Data come from the 1979 Young Chicagoans Survey. The final sample consists of 1,071 unmarried Black adolescent females ages 13 to 19 that were residing in Chicago in 1979.

Source
"The impact of social status, family structure, and neighborhood on the fertility of black adolescents."
Hogan, D. P.
Kitagawa, E. M.
American Journal of Sociology Vol. 90, Number 4. , 1985. Page(s) 825-855.

FindingID: 8028