Sentences with phrase «environments of adolescent mothers»

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This warrants further study, but also serves as a reminder to look not only at the adolescent mother as an individual but in the context of her family environment.

In Denver, mothers who received home visits had more sensitive mother - infant interactions and higher HOME scores than mothers who did not.80 Home visiting, however, had no significant effects on different aspects of the home environment in Elmira or Memphis.81 One possible explanation for this difference is that the majority of mothers at the Elmira and Memphis sites were adolescents, whereas the Denver mothers were more diverse in age, suggesting stronger effects for older mothers than for younger mothers with respect to the quality of the home environment.

The relation between child - rearing beliefs and the home environment in a sample of adolescent mothers.

Adolescent mothers and their children would benefit from interventions such as parenting support, education about nutritional needs, and advice on enriching the environments of their children.