Young men 'benefit' in later years when teen pregnancy ends in abortion

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When young women use abortion services, the adolescent men who avoid becoming teenaged fathers go on to have better educational and financial ...

When young women use abortion services, the adolescent men who avoid becoming teenaged fathers go on to have better educational and financial futures than peers who do become teen fathers, a U.S. study suggests.

Everett and colleagues analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, a long-term study of adolescents recruited in the early 1990s and followed into adulthood. The research team also observed an income difference between those who reported abortions and those who reported live births, but it was not as significant. Teenage fathers were earning an average of about US$33,000 a year at the time they were interviewed while those who did not become teen fathers had about US$39,000 in annual income.

Future studies should look at the differences among men who wanted to become fathers and those who didn't, said Diana Greene Foster of the University of California, San Francisco, who wasn't involved in the study. Men who want to become fathers at a young age may see the sacrifice and extra struggle to gain an education to be worth it, she noted.

 

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