Challenges and transformations: childbearing and changes in teens’ educational aspirations and expectations

Although much of the focus on teen childbearing has been on its potential costs to teen parents and their children, emerging research suggests that teen childbearing while challenging can be a positively transformative experience for teens. One such transformation is enhanced educational aspirations and expectations. Much of the research on the positive consequences of teen childbearing for teens’ educational orientations, however, has come from in-depth interviews with teen mothers that have methodological limitations. Using panel data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and NLSY79 – Young Adult Survey 1994 (NLSY79-YA) this study finds that over time, teens’ educational expectations and aspirations increase, on average, regardless of parental status. Nevertheless, there is significant heterogeneity in how expectations and aspirations change. Teen parents have lower odds of increasing, and greater odds of decreasing, their aspirations and expectations over a 2-year period compared to their childless counterparts. These patterns, however, shift across cohorts. Unlike the NLSY79, there are no differences in the odds of lowering aspirations and expectations between teen parents and non-parents in the NLSY79-YA. Moreover, the lower odds of increasing aspirations/expectations among mothers and white teen parents compared to fathers and black teen parents in the NLSY79 cohort are not found in the NLSY79-YA.     

Onwards and Upwards? Gender and Work in Ireland

It can be argued that the Irish workforce has been revolutionised over the past 25 years, as married women entered the world of paid work in increasing numbers, bolstering the female participation rate. There have also been changes in gender roles and gender role attitudes over the period. This review will present sociological research analysing this major social change, including research that places the Irish case in a comparative European and international context. The review will mirror the main foci of the field, paying particular attention to research on gender role attitudes, occupational segregation and unpaid work. The gendering of the Irish workforce has been a complex and uneven process, involving continuities as well as changes. Overall, the sexual division of labour remains a key feature of paid and unpaid work in Ireland, and the concept has considerable explanatory power in relation to persistent gender inequalities.     

Environment and Women

There is only one Earth. Now, in the late 20th century, conditions on the Earth have become critical because of acid rain, debris flows, suffocating urban smoke and dust, increasing desertification, the exploding population, and the greenhouse effect     

Mushroom and Eggplant

Ingredients: 150 grams eggplant, 50 grams mushroom, 100 grams pork,one egg and some corn starch. scallion, ginger, salt, hot pepper and MSG (optional). Method: 1. Peel the eggplant and cut into large pieces; slice each piece halfway, so that it can be sandwiched with a filling. 2.Mince the pork and add chopped scallion and ginger,hot pepper.salt,and MSG to taste.Fill the eggplant with the meat.     

Shenzhen and Huizhou

Shenzhen and Huizhou, the cities located nearest to Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, are two bright pearls on the southern end of the Beijing-Kowloon railway line.     

Performance and Life

IN Chinese performing art circles,XiMeijuan of the Shanghai People's ArtTheater is not known for being one ofthose dazzlingly beautiful actresses who issurface-deep alone.So how does sheexplain her way with the audience?     

Women and Cars

Not only do the selfemployed seek driving licenses, state organ staffers also feel the necessity to learn to drive.     

Benefactors and Beneficiaries? Disability and Care to Others

Individuals with disabilities often have limitations that require care from others to increase functioning and facilitate activities of daily living. Despite these care‐receiving needs, evidence suggests people with disabilities are also care givers. This study uses the 2008–2015 American Time Use Survey to examine the association between the presence of sensory, mental or cognitive, physical, or multiple limitations and the likelihood and intensity of time spent in primary child care, secondary child care, adult care, care of nonhouseholders, and support care (housework). Net of socioeconomic characteristics, the authors do not observe consistent differences in predicted child care time by disability status, although men with disabilities spend less time in care to adults and nonhouseholders. The largest difference in predicted care time by disability status occurs in support care. Overall, the results challenge the traditional focus on people with disabilities as only beneficiaries of care to document their role as benefactors.     

Divorce and Children

Zang Xiaoping (editor of the Literary Gazette) Whether or not to get divorced for the sake of the children is an important question for every couple that is having problems. I think the key to solving the problem is to start by considering what would be best for the healthy development of their children.     

Between and Animals

Animals are man's best friends. Animals remind man of his own infancy. People and animals get on well with each other, so the world is bright and colorful. Animals are children's close pals, too. Being on intimate terms with animals makes children more kind-hearted and sympathetic.     

Life and Painting

LI Yan and Liu Derun share their life's passion. Working out of their studio, the couple has turned out many first-class paintings. The beauty of the northern mountains, rivers and villages in China are their shared inspirations. Through painting they     

Women and Law

WOMEN'S rights concern the world over. Even though China has a different legal tradition and social system, participants from the Beijing Sino-British Women and Law Symposium discovered that both Chinese and foreign scholars could reach agreement and understanding on many issues. Enacting Laws for Women Professor Yang Dawen, from the     

Women and Life

On Charm THERE are thousands of explanations about what constitutes a woman's charm. There are countless instructions about how to make a woman charming. In fact. a woman's charm doesn't lie in how splendidly she reveals herself, but lies in how successfully she changes others. A charming woman can usually create an atmosphere that will enfold and inspire others. Both women and men can fall under this spell.     

Spring and Autumn

Born in Taoyuan County, Hunan Province, and cultivated by the beautiful natural landscape, water coforist Li Penglin has indulged in painting since childhood In the 1960s, he enrolled in the Art Department of the Hunan Institute for Fine Art. Now, he is an assistant professor of the School of Fine Art at Hunan Normal University     

Peacock and Peonies

This piece of artistic work is the result of the cnoperation of about 200 Chinese women painters. and stands as a welcome to the FWCW. The activity was sponsored by the Shenzhen Women Painters Association in Guangdong Province. The peacock     

Longing and Dating

Since the 1980s, Long Rui began attracting attention in the artistic lield As a post graduate with the Central Academy of Fine Arts Long Rui studied chinese scenic p(?)inting under the guidance of Chinese scenic painting master Mr li Keran Absorbing characteristics of traditional art, the middle aged painter studies and absorbs a wide range of sources including the different     

Beijingers and Shanghainese

I was born and brought up in Shanghai.Later, to follow my husband, I moved toBeijing. From the start I was impressed bythe courteous way the residents of theformer imperial city addressed people andtheir pleasing speech patterns, with curlingtongue to add an "er" pronunciation to manyof the Chinese words - so different from theflatter speech of Shanghai. Over the years inBeijing, I learned how to mimic the accentand found that the people of the two citiesare interestingly different in many ways. I was accustomed to sharing taxis when Iarrived, for in Shanghai, if you are going inthe same direction, strangers double up forcheaper fares. In the capital, however, it ishard to find someone willing to get in ifsomeone is already inside. One weekend,     

Women and Advertising

The Platform for Action adopted at the United Nations Fourth World Conference On Women acknowledges the media's role in eliminating sexual discrimination and promoting women's development.It lists women and media as one of the ten fields that require strategic targeting and action.     

Mushrooms and Health

NUMEROUS varieties of edible mushrooms are highly beneficial to health. Mushrooms enhance the mental and physical development of children and are highly beneficial to recovering cancer patients. People have developed an affinity for the taste of mushrooms and have in turn developed numerous recipes for cooking same. Pine mushrooms are commonly found in northeast China. with locals, especially women and children, heading to forests to collect same following periods of rain.