My Teen Pregnancy Story- Part 2
Latinx Therapy
Adriana Alejandre
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to My Teen Pregnancy Story Part 2!
Did you all know that Less than 2% of teen moms earn a college degree by age 30?
Roughly 229,715 teens between 15 and 19 became pregnant in 2015. Latinas have the highest teen-pregnancy rate of any group. The birth rate (per 1,000 girls) for white teens in California is nine, compared to a rate of 29 for Latina teens.
As I mentioned though, the rates for teen pregnancies in our community is drastically decreasing and I think a large part of this is due to the openness and education that we are sharing as generations go by.
In this episode, I go into what it was like to confront my ex's family, being in college with a son, what my schedule looked like, my dreams and wishes as a 20-year old, how I was stigmatized as a teen mom, and I give advice to parents who have teen mom daughters. There is often control because of their age, but I talk about the disservice and identity formation that is occurring. Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes/Apple Podcasts!
Resources:
Planned Parenthood for Parents: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/parents
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Latinx Therapy. |
| 0:05.3 | The information shared in this podcast is not a substitute for seeking help from a licensed mental health professional and is not a substitute for psychological diagnosis or treatment. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm your host, Adriana Alejandra Alejandro, licensed marriage and family therapist. |
| 0:20.1 | Hey everyone, welcome back to my teen pregnancy story part two. |
| 0:25.6 | Today I am going to focus on my experience after my son's birth and what that was like for me. |
| 0:32.2 | Did you all know that less than 2% of teen moms earn a college degree by age 30. Roughly 229,715 teens between the ages of 15 and 19 became pregnant in 2015. |
| 0:49.8 | Latinas have the highest teen pregnancy rate of any group. So the birth rate is per 1,000 girls. |
| 0:57.7 | For white teens in California, that number is 9 compared to a rate of 29 for Latina teens. |
| 1:05.4 | That is a drastic difference from 9 to 29. As I mentioned, though, the rates for teen pregnancies in our community |
| 1:13.5 | is drastically decreasing and I think a large part of that is due to the openness and education |
| 1:19.5 | that we are sharing as generations go by. So I kept getting flashbacks a few days after I released the last episode, Part 1, and I wanted to |
| 1:31.9 | clarify something. |
| 1:33.0 | I remembered that I actually told my dad alone, and then he told my mom without me being present |
| 1:40.5 | that I was pregnant. |
| 1:41.5 | And the interaction that I had with her in her room was when I came back |
| 1:46.7 | over the weekend. She called me after my father spoke with her. And I remember that I was just |
| 1:53.6 | answering her questions, but mostly that conversation turned around to be about her. Looking back, |
| 2:00.5 | she was in fight mode the entire time because she was |
| 2:03.8 | afraid of the unknown and I think subconsciously the fact that the history was repeating itself. |
| 2:10.8 | So I left off when my son was born and I was having difficulty breastfeeding. So I stopped |
| 2:16.1 | after just two weeks. I still felt like I was in |
| 2:20.0 | a daze at that time and I couldn't believe that I was a mom. I was still enrolled in community |
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