Young males' reports of their fertility experiences provide the foundation for substantive research into adolescent males' family roles. Repeated findings that men underreport their fertility in social surveys raises concerns about the usefulness of data collected from men. This study involved calculation of birth rates reported by unmarried males ages 15 to/through 19 in the 1988 National Survey of Adolescent Males and its 1991 follow-up study. Then these rates were compared with estimates based on the reports of mothers from the 1988 National Maternal and Infant Health Survey to determine if statistically significant differences existed.
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