Like father, like son: The intergenerational cycle of adolescent fatherhood

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 517-524

  Sipsma, Heather ^a   Biello, Katie Brooks ^a   Cole Lewis, Heather ^a   Kershaw, Trace ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; ECOLOGY; FATHER; FATHER CHILD RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SYSTEMS THEORY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ECOLOGY; FATHER-CHILD RELATIONS; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SYSTEMS THEORY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77149142878     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.177600     Document Type: Article

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