Table of Contents

Foreword

1 The Study, the Context, and the Findings in Brief
Rebecca A. Maynard

2 Trends over Time in Teenage Pregnancy and Childbearing: The Critical Changes
Susan Williams McElroy and Kristin Anderson Moore

3 The Impacts of Teenage Childbearing on the Mothers and the Consequences of those Impacts for Government
V. Joseph Hotz, Susan Williams McElroy, and Seth G. Sanders

4 Costs and Consequences for the Fathers
Michael J. Brien and Robert J. Willis

5 Effects on the Children Born to Adolescent Mothers
Kristin Anderson Moore, Donna Ruane Morrison, and Angela Dungee Greene

6 Teen Children's Health and Health Care Use
Barbara Wolfe and Maria Perozek

7 Abuse and Neglect of the Children
Robert M. Goerge and Bong Joo Lee

8 Incarceration-Related Costs of Early Childbearing
Jeffrey Grogger

9 Children of Early Childbearers as Young Adults
Robert H. Haveman, Barbara Wolfe, and Elaine Peterson

10 The Costs of Adolescent Childbearing
Rebecca A. Maynard

About the Editor

About the Contributors

List of Tables and Figures