Encyclopedia of Adolescence

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| Editors: Roger J.R. Levesque

Motherhood

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Adolescence is a period marked by important social, economic, and biological transitions. The ways in which adolescents are able to cope with and/or navigate the transition from childhood to adolescence play an important role in shaping the quality of their adult lives. In addition to the challenges that many adolescents experience – such as identity formation, seeking autonomy, puberty, and the initiation of romantic relationships – adolescent mothers and their children must cope with multiple stressors in their immediate home and neighborhood environments such as parenting stress, poverty, neighborhood crime, and poor school systems (Whitman et al. 2001; Penman-Aguilar et al. 2013). These stressors can have both short- and long-term negative impacts on adolescent mothers and their children. Moreover, these situational constraints have been found to remain present throughout the development of both the adolescent mother and her children unless the adolescent mother is able...

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Protective Factor Child Maltreatment Adolescent Health Teen Pregnancy Young Mother 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Human Relations and Women’s and Gender StudiesUniversity of OklahomaNormanUSA
  2. 2.Department of PsychologyYoungstown State UniversityYoungstownUSA