More attention should be paid to the mental health of teenage mothers inorder to halt the high level of accidents their children experience,researchers said last week.
A Department of Health-funded study by the University of Southamptonexamined data from the 10,000 children born in 1991/92 who were trackedby the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. The universityalso examined data from the British Birth Cohort Study, based on 15,000children born in one week in April 1970.
The university found that children of teenage mothers do well incomparison to the children of older mothers in many ways, with littledifference in their early language and social development. But thechildren of teenage mums had more accidents and were at greater risk ofdeveloping conduct and emotional behavioural problems andhyperactivity.
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