summarize the following, identify key points: We now turn our attention to a more in- tensive examination of the second genera- tion of teenage mothers in the Baltimore sample. We will examine the similarities and differences between their accommo- dation to early parenthood and the way their mothers managed the adjustment some 20 years earlier. Remember, how- ever, that we are focusing only on the sub- group of 42 teenage mothers instead of on the larger number of daughters who did not follow in their mothers' footsteps. At the 20-year follow-up in 1987, most of the small group of second-generation mothers who had borne their first child before age 19 had children of preschool age-approximately as old as they them- selves were at the time of the three-year follow-up in 1970. Thus, we can compare the adjustment to early parenthood for the 42 second-generation women who became teenage mothers with that of their mothers at roughly the same point in the two groups' lives. Obviously, the limited num- ber of cases suggests that great caution is needed in interpreting the patterns de- scribed below. Selected behavioral and attitudinal char- acteristics for those 42 pairs, as well as for the 72