ABSTRACT
The Notre Dame Parenting Project has gathered data on adolescent mothers and their children from pregnancy through the first 8 years of life. The main goal has been to understand the unique and common factors that influence the children’s intellectual skills, socioemotional development, and academic achievement through analysis of maternal and child factors operating during pregnancy and later as children proceed through their preschool and early school years. In addition, the project examined the mothers’ life course and how the early personal characteristics of these mothers influenced their own later development.
