A bioecocultural approach to supporting adolescent mothers and their young children in conflict-affected contexts

• Published in: Development and psychopathology Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 714 - 726
• Main Authors: Wuermli, Alice J., Yoshikawa, Hirokazu, Hastings, Paul D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.05.2021
• Subjects: Adolescents; Caregivers; Child development; Children; Children & youth; COVID-19; Displaced persons; Early childhood education; Education; Families & family life; Girls; Intervention; Mental health; Mothers; Nervous system; Neurobiology; Neurosciences; Parents & parenting; Physiology; Poverty; Pregnancy; Special Issue Article; Stress; Teenage parents; Teenagers; Trauma; War; adolescent mothers; stress; culture; intervention; low- and middle-income countries; adolescent pregnancy; resilience; conflict; humanitarian

An estimated 12 million girls aged 15–19 years, and 777,000 girls younger than 15 give birth globally each year. Contexts of war and displacement increase the likelihood of early marriage and childbearing. Given the developmentally sensitive periods of early childhood and adolescence, adolescent mot...