Pregnant and parenting students face significant barriers that often are overlooked or discounted by schoolteachers and other people in their lives.
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What I Needed When I Was a Pregnant and Parenting Teen
When I got pregnant and became a mother at 15, I experienced an overwhelming onslaught of disrespect and shame from family members, friends, and perfect strangers.
Dear President Obama: Reducing teenage pregnancy will not ‘fix’ America
As a teenage mother, I feel slighted by President Obama’s following comment:
Being a teen mom in the ‘mom club’
Motherhood can seem like a very lonely journey, but when societal stigma and shame about your maternal age are prevalent, it can be even more isolating.
Why Don’t More People Care About Black Maternal Deaths?
With the right care, it’s very possible Gibson and her infant would have survived.
The Pregnant and Parenting Students Access to Education Act Best of the Left Activism
Because of a legislative onslaught of unconstitutional laws that have left almost 90% of Americans living in counties without abortion providers, the media and activism focus on issues of choice and reproductive rights typically centers around abortion care.
Where’s the ’16, Parenting, and OK’ Reality Show?
While they might never admit it, I firmly believe the negative ways in which the media—television, film, print journalism—portrays teenage pregnancy and parenting influenced how the adults in my life treated me after I told them I was pregnant.
Listen to Youth: Adult Allies Must Support the Repeal of Illinois’ Forced Parental Notification Law
The issues of young people, sex, pregnancy, parenting, and abortion have been heating up in recent years due to a fight around the implementation of the forced parental notification law.
A Young Mama’s Journey From Struggling Alone to Parenting in Community
Becoming a mother at 15 made me feel as if I had to prove to the world that I could do “it” on my own.
Bill O’Reilly, Beyonce, and Pseudo Findings
Bill O’Reilly believes that Beyonce does not deserve to be on the cover of Time magazine because she causes young women in the black community to have unintended pregnancies