To Parent or Relinquish: Consequences for Adolescent Mothers

Abstract

Adolescent mothers who placed their children for adoption (n = 146) and adolescent mothers who parented their children (n = 123) were surveyed. Mothers who relinquish their children are more likely to complete vocational training, delay marriage, avoid a rapid subsequent pregnancy, be employed after the births, and live in higher income households than mothers who parent their children. On several measures of self-esteem, satisfaction with life, and satisfaction with the decision, however, there were few differences between the two groups.

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