Using two waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study
examines two sets of relationships between attitudes, religiosity, and first sex among …

We examine the effects of family structure on age at first sexual intercourse before marriage
for a recent cohort of women. Previous research on the linkage between family structure and …

Common wisdom states that teenage childbearing reduces schooling, labour market
experience and adult wages. However, the decisions to be a teenage mother, to quit school …

The research that has been conducted to date on Vietnamese adolescents has focused on
unprotected and unsanctioned sexual activity and its health consequences, specifically …

Whereas there is a well-developed literature on socio-economic inequalities in timing of first
marriage, most research on the association between socio-economic family background and …

Researchers continue to question fathers' willingness to report their biological children in
surveys and the ability of surveys to adequately represent fathers. To address these …

Two types of reporting inconsistency for sexual initiation were analyzed—event occurrence
and its timing—using data from two waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent …

Purpose While previous studies have identified a range of potential risk factors for postnatal
depression (PND), none have examined a comprehensive set of risk factors at a population …

BACKGROUND A key feature of the Generations & Gender Programme (GGP) is that
longitudinal micro-data from the Generations and Gender Surveys (GGS) can be combined …

An individual's first sexual experience is a highly salient and meaningful event, with potential
to shape sexual scripts and the affect associated with sexual expression. Using data from …