Childbearing among daughters of parents with HIV.
OBJECTIVE
To examine first childbearing and its predictors among daughters of parents with HIV.


METHODS
Pairs of parents with HIV and their adolescent daughters (n = 181) participated in a randomized, controlled-intervention trial designed to improve coping skills within the family, and were monitored up to 7 years.


RESULTS
Overall, daughters of HIV parents had a high rate of early childbearing compared to national and local rates. First childbearing tended to be delayed by (a) being in a coping intervention, (b) being less emotionally distressed, (c) receiving academic counseling, and (d) having a positive perception of their family's finances.


CONCLUSIONS
HIV has a negative intergenerational impact, particularly on depressed young people, which may be buffered by interventions enhancing coping and academic counseling.
May
Susanne
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Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
Lester
Patricia
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Ilardi
Melissa
M
Rotheram-Borus
Mary Jane
MJ
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D003376:Counseling; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008423:Maternal Age; D009519:New York City; D009679:Nuclear Family / Q000523:psychology*; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept