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A 5 page paper critiquing a longitudinal study of children born of unwanted pregnancies. David, Dytrych and Matejcek (2003) report on a large and long-term study designed to assess the consequences of being born unwanted, expressed in terms of sound mental health in adulthood. The authors identified 220 children born between 1961 and 1963 in Prague, Czech Republic. All of these study children were born of women who had sought and been denied an abortion at least twice for the pregnancy that produced the study subject. The researchers concluded that unwantedness was a significant risk factor for mental health problems in later life. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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David, Dytrych and Matejcek (2003) report on a large and long-term study designed to assess the consequences of being born unwanted, expressed in terms of sound mental health
in adulthood. The authors identified 220 children born between 1961 and 1963 in Prague, Czech Republic. All of these study children were born of women who had sought
and been denied an abortion at least twice for the pregnancy that produced the study subject. The authors included 220 pair-matched controls, whose
mothers were similar to study mothers in several respects. The authors followed up with the children at ages 9, 14-16, 21-23, 30, and 35, to conclude that "being born
from an unwanted pregnancy is a risk factor for poor mental health in adulthood" (David, 2003; p. 224). Hypotheses The authors primary hypothesis
that would be tested at ages 9, 14-16 and 21-23 "was that the differences between children born from explicitly unwanted pregnancies" and those from accepted ones "would be to the
disadvantage of children born from unwanted pregnancies" (David, et al., 2003; p. 226). Conventional wisdom holds that boys are more sensitive to adverse conditions, and the authors expected that
boys would prove to have greater difficulties than the girls in the study. Another hypothesis was that "the effect of unwanted pregnancy is
a nonshared (by siblings) effect" (David, et al., 2003; p. 227). The null hypothesis, of course, was that there would be no significant difference found between the study and
control groups. Study Design and Critique This specific paper is written as a follow-up to two earlier ones describing the study and reporting
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