Young Adult Outcomes of Children Born to Teen Mothers: Effects of Being Born During Their Teen or Later Years

OBJECTIVE: Children of teen mothers exhibit adverse outcomes through adolescence. It is unclear whether these adverse outcomes extend to adulthood and apply to all of her children, or only those born when she was a teen. We examine the associations between young adult functioning and being born to a teen mother aged ≤20 years at the time of birth (current teen), and being born to a teen mother later in her life (>21 years, prior teen). METHOD: …