At a time when educational attainment in young adulthood forecasts long-term trajectories of economic mobility, better health, and stable partnership, there is more pressure on mothers to provide labor and support to advance their children’s interests in the K–12 system. As a result, poor health among mothers when children are growing up may interfere with how far they progress educationally. Applying life course theory to the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to investigate this possibility, we found that young adults were less likely to graduate from college when raised by mothers in poor health, especially when those mothers had a college degree themselves. Young people’s school-related behaviors mediated this longitudinal association. These findings extend the literature on the connection between education and health into an intergenerational process, speaking to a pressing public health issue—rising morbidity among adults in midlife—and the reproduction of inequality within families.

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生病时的母亲抚养：孕产妇健康状况不佳和年轻人的教育程度


当青年期的教育程度预示着经济流动性、更好的健康和稳定的伙伴关系的长期轨迹时，母亲们面临着更大的压力，他们需要提供劳动力和支持，以促进孩子在 K-12 系统中的利益。因此，母亲在孩子成长过程中健康状况不佳可能会干扰她们在教育方面的进步。将生命历程理论应用于全国青少年到成人健康纵向研究以调查这种可能性，我们发现，由健康状况不佳的母亲抚养长大的年轻人不太可能从大学毕业，尤其是当这些母亲自己拥有大学学位时。年轻人与学校相关的行为在这种纵向关联中起中介作用。这些发现将关于教育与健康之间联系的文献扩展到一个代际过程，谈到了一个紧迫的公共卫生问题——中年成年人发病率的上升——以及家庭内部不平等的繁殖。