Neither Accidental nor Intended: Pregnancy as an Adolescent Identity Project among Hispanic Teenage Mothers in Doña Ana County, New Mexico

Autor/in	Cashdollar, S. E.
Titel	Neither Accidental nor Intended: Pregnancy as an Adolescent Identity Project among Hispanic Teenage Mothers in Doña Ana County, New Mexico
Quelle	(2018), (34 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
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Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Pregnancy; Hispanic Americans; Adolescents; Adolescent Attitudes; Mothers; Early Parenthood; Decision Making; Intention; Hispanic American Culture; Socioeconomic Background; Cultural Context; Sexuality; Contraception; Ethnicity; Social Class; Gender Issues; Self Concept; Community Characteristics; Empowerment; Labeling (of Persons); High School Students; New Mexico + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schwangerschaft; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Mother; Mutter; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Hispanistik; Sozioökonomische Lage; Sexualität; Empfängnisverhütung; Ethnizität; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Geschlechterfrage; Selbstkonzept; Labeling-Ansatz; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin
Abstract	Lidia and Josephina, although living vastly different lives, both represent Hispanic teen mothers. Pregnancies like theirs have been an issue of central concern in the U.S. for decades, with Hispanic teens considered most at risk. Despite vast recent declines in teen childbearing across all racial and ethnic groups, the U.S. continues to have the highest rate of adolescent childbearing among industrialized countries (United Nations, 2014), and Hispanics remain more likely than any other racial or ethnic group to give birth as teens and twice as likely to give birth as white teens (Romero et al., 2016). Hispanic teen mothers frequently hear stories, public opinions, and expert analyses concluding that their pregnancies resulted from irresponsible decision-making, limited access to contraception resources among the poor, cultural value systems that normalize women's subordination to men, or one of several other one-size-fits-all explanations that have informed countless policies and interventions aimed toward preventing early childbearing (Barcelos & Gubrium, 2014; Luker, 1996). Yet for Lidia, Josephina, and many of the other young Hispanic women who participated in the current study, none of these accounts alone suffice to explain their pregnancies. In this study, I present stories from two groups of young Hispanic mothers in very different social contexts. Through thematic narrative analysis (Riessman, 2008), I examine how their reproductive choices shaped and were shaped by their processes of identification within the constraints of these contexts. In doing so, I aim to contribute to a growing body of literature that critiques stigmatizing, simplistic views of teen childbearing and instead privileges the voices of teen mothers themselves in order to highlight the complexity of their subjective experiences in reproductive decision-making. I begin with an overview of this literature. [This paper was published in "Journal of Adolescent Research" v33 n5 p598-622 2018.] (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01