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Looking to the future

The first survey of the Millennium Cohort study is necessarily cross-sectional, but it
documents the adverse circumstance of young mothers associated with disadvantages in
their earlier lives, with current circumstances and with future prospects for themselves
and their child. The prospects for children of earlier mothers will be affected by these
differentiated economic circumstances. A foretaste is provided by differentials in their
birth weight, and more dramatically in their chances of having been breastfed. Even if
age at motherhood may have been a choice for the women, it was not for the children.
The follow-up surveys should see whether this snapshot turns into an intergenerational
cycle of disadvantage of which early motherhood is a marker.

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