This three-year, Washington statewide field study of pregnant and parenting teenagers, conducted between 1989 and 1992, assessed the role of sexual victimization in adolescent sexual behavior, pregnancy, and subsequent parenting. The purpose of the study was to examine the prevalence, etiology and prevention of child maltreatment by adolescent parents.

The guiding hypothesis focused research on physical and sexual victimization as antecedent factors in both adolescent pregnancy and child maltreatment among adolescent parents. The central questions of this investigation were: (1) What is the relationship between early sexual victimization and child abuse to adolescent pregnancy and (2) what is the relationship between early sexual victimization and child abuse to maltreatment of the children of adolescent parents.

Data were collected in three phases, at approximately one year intervals. The phases included: (1) baseline surveys conducted in 1989, (2) follow-up surveys conducted approximately one year later, and (3) a review of Child Protective Services case record reviews. In addition, focus group interviews were conducted throughout the research period. DAAPPP Data Set N3 includes data from the baseline and the follow-up surveys. It includes 916 variables and 540 cases.