Teenage parenthood among child welfare clients: - a Swedish national cohort study

Vinnerljung, BoStockholms universitet,Institutionen för socialt arbete - Socialhögskolan (author)

Teenage parenthood among child welfare clients : - a Swedish national cohort study

To assess prevalence and odds for teenage parenthood among former child welfare clients, we used national register data for all children born in Sweden 1972–1983 (n=1,178,207), including 49,582 former child welfare clients with varying intervention experiences. Logistic regression models, adjusted for demographic, socio-economic and familial background factors, were used to estimate odds ratios.Among youth who received interventions in adolescence, 16–19% of the girls and 5–6% of the boys became teenage parents, compared to 3% for girls and 0.7% for boys without child welfare experiences. Youths who entered child welfare services in their teens had four- to fivefold adjusted odds for becoming a teenage parent. For other child welfare clients, adjusted odds were mostly twofold.Youth of both sexes who receive child welfare services in adolescence are a high-risk group for teenage parenthood. Child welfare agencies should, as a minimum, provide each individual client youth with access to birth control counselling and contraceptives.

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP Sociologi Socialt arbete hsv//swe
SOCIAL SCIENCES Sociology Social Work hsv//eng
Adolescent; Parenthood; Motherhood; Fatherhood; Child bearing; Child welfare; Foster care; Child care; Cohort study
Social work
Socialt arbete

Franzén, Eva (author)
Danielsson, Maria (author)
Stockholms universitetInstitutionen för socialt arbete - Socialhögskolan (creator_code:org_t)

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