The next generation: The children of teenage mothers grow up.

by Furstenberg, Frank F. Jr; Hughes, Mary Elizabeth; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne.

Rosenheim, Margaret Keeney (Ed), Testa, Mark F. (Ed), et al. (1992). Early parenthood and coming of age in the 1990s. (pp. 113-135). New Brunswick, NJ, USA: Rutgers University Press. xiii, 264 pp.  

Describes the preliminary results of an investigation of the extent to which social disadvantage has been inherited and the sources of variation in outcome among a sample of youths who are the offspring of teenage mothers / teenage parenthood is thought by some to be a central link in a cycle of disadvantage; thus children of teenage mothers are a group of particular interest to the study of intergenerational transmission of poverty / the data used . . . come from an ongoing, twenty-year study of teenage mothers and their children in Baltimore / a principal aim of the Baltimore study has been to identify both conditions that promote the perpetuation of poverty and circumstances that allow disadvantaged persons to enter the economic mainstream.