Intergenerational persistence of early family formation trajectories among teenage- mothers and fathers in Sweden

In this paper, we address the questions of whether early family trajectories of parents are refected in childbearing teenagers, and how socio-economic and family background factors impact these intergenerational correlations. We use within-dyad sequence analysis to examine combined marital and child...

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Autores: Kalucza, Sara|||0000-0003-2696-9517, Vidal, Sergi|||0000-0003-4011-2077, Nilsson, Karina
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:245105
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/245105
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1007/s12546-021-09265-1
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Teenage parenthood
Adolescent fertility
Intergenerational transmission
Sequence analysis
Sweden
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Sumario:In this paper, we address the questions of whether early family trajectories of parents are refected in childbearing teenagers, and how socio-economic and family background factors impact these intergenerational correlations. We use within-dyad sequence analysis to examine combined marital and childbearing trajectories, up to age 30, of two generations of a representative sample of childbearing teenagers born between 1975 and 1985 and their progenitors, drawn from the Swedish population register data. We fnd evidence for within-family persistence of early family trajectories, with better matches across family state sequences for dyads composed of childbearing teenagers and their parents, than for dyads composed of childbearing teenagers and parents of random birth cohort peers. Regression analysis shows that these intergenerational associations are stronger and occur among later-born siblings from non-traditional family backgrounds, and among families with lower socio-economic backgrounds. This study flls gaps in the knowledge of intergenerational family life course dynamics beyond the early parenthood event.