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Predictors of nurturant parenting in teen mothers living in three generational families

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Direct and indirect effects of grandparents on maternal nurturance in teen mothers (TM) living in three-generational families were explored with path analytic techniques in a sample of 107 working-class families. Perceived support from the teen's mother, grandparents' nurturance toward the baby, and the presence of the grandfather as a father figure in the home were hypothesized as increasing TM nurturance. TM nurturance was found to be positively predicted by grandparent nurturance and negatively predicted by TM perceived support from her mother. The strongest predictor of TM nurturance was grandfather nurturance toward the baby.

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  1. Merrill-Palmer Institute, Wayne State University, 71-A E. Ferry, 48202, Detroit, MI

    Daphna Oyserman PhD & Eli Saltz PhD

  2. School of Social Work, University of Michigan, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI

    Norma Radin PhD

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This investigation was supported in part by Maternal and Child Health Grant 86-2118-J1 awarded to Norma Radin.

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Oyserman, D., Radin, N. & Saltz, E. Predictors of nurturant parenting in teen mothers living in three generational families. Child Psych Hum Dev 24, 215–230 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02353198

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