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Sons of Teeage Fathers at Increased Risk of Becoming Teen Dads Themselves
If your father is a teenager, you have double the chances of becoming a teenage dad yourself, according to a new study from Yale School of Public Health.
- Heather Sipsma and her colleagues studied 1500 males under the age of 18 years old and found that having a teenage father increased their chances of young fatherhood by 1.8 times, even after they factored out other explanations.
- Previous studies have found an association between being a teenaged mother and having daughters that became mothers as teens, but this was the first to study young men.
"We often neglect the importance of men in reproductive and maternal-child health," said Dr. Trace Kershaw, a Yale professor in the division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology. "We need to recognize that men play an important role in the health and well-being of families and children."
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