While childhood trauma is known to have poor impact on a woman's midlife health a new study has uncovered the reason behind it and found that these females are more likely to have their first child both earlier in life and outside of marriage - factors associated with poorer health later in life. These results suggest that early trauma - such as the death of a parent physical abuse or emotional neglect - may affect young people's decision-making in ways that they can't entirely control. It's easy to tell teens that they shouldn't have kids before marriage but the message won't be