Like Parent Like Child? The Role of Delayed Childrearing in Breaking the Link Between Parent’s Offending and Their Children’s Antisocial Behavior**

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• Alternative Title:
  Justice Q
• Personal Author:
  Lizotte, Alan J. ; Phillips, Matthew D. ; Krohn, Marvin D. ; Thornberry, Terence P. ; Bushway, Shawn D. ; Schmidt, Nicole M.
• Description:
  This paper investigates the impact of parents' history of violent offending, their age at first birth, and the interaction of the two on their adolescent children's violent behavior. We employ intergenerational longitudinal data from the Rochester Youth Development Study to estimate parental trajectories of offending from their early adolescence through early adulthood. We show that the particular shape of the parents' propensity of offending over time can interact with their age at first birth to protect their children from delinquency. We investigate these relationships for children at 6 and 10 years of age. We find that for some groups delaying childrearing can insulate children from their parents' offending.
• Subjects:
  Article Developmental Stages Intergenerational Delinquency Risk And Protective Factors Trajectory Analysis
• Source:
  Justice Q. 32(3):410-444.
• Pubmed ID:
  26392677
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4573638
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 MH063386/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; R24 HD041041/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States ; R01 MH056486/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; U49 CE001295/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States ; R01 DA020195/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States
• Volume:
  32
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a030f5fc59315c4ae42a3e42a98863d514a664dc607e3c94778312fc3379dd7a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/42072/cdc_42072_DS1.pdf
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