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Adolescent Parenting: Relationship to School Attendance and Achievement

Kathleen Rose Casserly, RN, MS

Kathleen Casserly, RN, MS, is a school nurse at a high school in Minneapolis, MN, and a member of the Teen Age Pregnant and Parenting Students (TAPPS) team for her school district. She is a board member of the Minnesota Organization for Adolescent Pregnancy, Prevention and Parenting as a representative of the School Nurses of Minnesota.

Ann Seitz Carpenter, RN, MS

Ann Carpenter, RN, MS, is a school nurse in an elementary and middle school in Minneapolis, MN. She is on the Board of Directors for School Nurses of Minnesota.

Linda Halcón, RN, PhD

Linda Halcón, RN, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota. She is a faculty member at the Center for Adolescent Nursing in the School of Nursing and a faculty member of the Center for Spirituality and Healing in the Academic Health Center.

School nurses often provide supportive services to pregnant and parenting teens. This study aims to describe the relationship between female secondary students’ attendance and achievement before and after childbirth. Among female students in the Minneapolis Public Schools who had a birth in 1994, there was a strong correlation between school achievement before and after the giving birth. Of those students not academically successful before the birth, over half were not successful afterward. Among those academically successful before the birth, 72% were successful after the birth. However, in the almost 40% with different academic success before, compared with after the birth, two thirds demonstrated greater academic success following the birth. Results show that attendance declines for adolescent female parents 1 year after a birth compared with 1 year before. Programs need to be examined to maximize each student’s potential and opportunities.

Key Words: adolescent parenting • school achievement • school attendance • school transfer

The Journal of School Nursing, Vol. 17, No. 6, 329-335 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/10598405010170060801
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