Cognitive status and childrearing attitudes of adolescent mothers were compared with those of older women from the same socioeconomic status when their children were infants. The 106 adolescent mothers were significantly lower than the 47 older women on measures of cognitive status but significantly higher in authoritarian attitudes.
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