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Published on: January 12, 2018
Relinquishment of premarital births: evidence from national survey data
C A Bachrach1, K S Stolley, K A London
1Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Md.
Abstract:
According to 1982 and 1988 NSFG data, unmarried white women are far less likely than they were in the early 1970s to place their children for adoption. The levels of relinquishment among black women have remained low throughout this period, and relinquishment among Hispanic women may be virtually nonexistent. Multivariate analysis of the determinants of relinquishment among unmarried non-Hispanic white women suggests that having a well-educated mother, being in school at the time of conception, having no labor force experience, and being older are positively associated with placing a child for adoption. Sons were found to be less likely to be relinquished than daughters.
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