Records of clinic-intake interviews conducted in the University of Utah's Teen Mother and Child Program over the period 1980-1985 provided data for the study. Respondents were mostly middle-class Caucasian adolescent mothers and their partners living in Utah. Data include reactions to the pregnancy, changes in relationships due to the pregnancy, mother and father's history of drinking smoking and substance use, history of physical and sexual maltreatment, educational status, employment status, religion, sources of emotional support, contraceptive use and anxieties involving parenthood.

The TMCP clinic serves a primarily white urban population in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is operated by the Department of Pediatrics, Adolescent Medicine, University of Utah Medical School. A multidisciplinary team of nurse midwife, social worker, nutritionist, financial counselor, outreach counselor, nurse educator, and pediatricians provides a variety of medical, nutritional, and psychosocial services to clients at the hospital site.

The file may be merged with DAAPPP Data Set C1 (variable MEXC3001 in Data Set C2 matches variable MEXC1610 in Data Set C1) and/or DAAPPP Data Set C2 (variable MEXC3001 in Data Set C3 matches varible MEXC2001 in Data Set C2).