The Baltimore Study originated as an evaluation of one of the nation's first comprehensive prenatal service programs for school-aged pregnant teenagers and evolved into one of the longest running longitudinal studies of families growing up in disadvantage. Beginning in 1966 with an interview of some 399 women who registered over a period of two years for prenatal services at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, the project was able to follow nearly two thirds of the mothers and children into the mid 1990s by which time the children were between 26 and 29.
Research has been funded most recently by The Commonwealth Fund, The Ford Foundation, W.T. Grant Foundation, and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Funding prior to 1984 was provided by The Maternal and Child Health Service Bureau in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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