Kristin Moore
Child Trends
Kristin Moore, President and Senior Scholar of Child Trends, has conducted research on the determinants and consequences of teen childbearing for more than 25 years. During the past decade, Dr. Moore served on the fatherhood steering committee to improve data on fathers, including becoming a father and being a father. Her analytic work has focused on the determinants of teen and nonmarital childbearing and the consequences of early childbearing for public sector costs, for children, and for young women. In addition, she has done numerous studies of the factors that are related to early sexual activity, non-voluntary sex, and childbearing.
Dr. Moore has served on the advisory group for the National Survey of Family Growth for several decades. She worked to include information in the NSFG on non-voluntary sex, on contextual factors, on public policies, and on males. This reflects one of the central commitments of her career, to improve the data available for the study of fertility, and of children and their development. In this regard, she has also worked on the DADS project and as a member of the design team for the NLSY97. Most recently, Moore and Manlove and colleagues at Child Trends have designed the modules on sex, contraception, partners, marriage, relationships, and family background for the NLSY97. They have already conducted analyses indicating that first sex most often takes place in the home of the young person or their partner, that teens with religious parents are less likely to have sex, that adolescents in intact families who have positive father-child relationships have a lower risk of initiating risky behaviors (Bronte-Tinkew and Moore, under review), and showing a relationship over time between parent-child relationships and sexual activity. Moore also serves on the ECLS-B technical advisory group.
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