Objective:

To determine under-5 children’s state of health, well-being, Early Childhood Development (ECD) and its association with mother age.

Materials and methods:

Using the National Survey of Girls, Boys and Women (ENIM, in Spanish) 2015, we compared sociodemographic characteristics and indicators of well-being, child development, nutrition, health, and child protection by age of the mother. We adjusted a logistic regression model to know the characteristics associated with an appropriate early child development.

Results:

The children of adolescent mothers are less likely to have an adequate ECD. Children with support for learning are about three times more likely to develop properly, while being a boy or having a mother with depressive symptomatology reduces this likelihood.

Conclusions:

It is important to design public policies based on modifiable conditions focused on support for learning, prevention and care of depressive symptoms to reduce development risks and increase care for the children of mothers in disadvantaged conditions.

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