In their own words: The life experiences of Mexican-American and white pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers |
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Authors: | Diana de Anda PhD Rosina M Becerra PhD Eve Fielder MPH |
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Institution: | (1) UCLA School of Social Welfare, 405 N. Hilgard Avenue, 90024 Los Angeles, CA;(2) Institute for Social Science Research, UCLA, 405 N. Hilgard Avenue, 90024 Los Angeles, CA |
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Abstract: | The results of an ethnographic study of 32 Mexican-American and 17 White adolescents are presented. Fifty percent or more of the respondents in both groups experienced parental loss during their childhood years. Little information was provided by parents to the adolescents regarding menses and physical maturation. While parent-adolescent conflict arose in both samples, the conflict for the Mexican-American adolescents centered around choice of girlfriends and boyfriends while multiple sources of conflict existed between the White respondents and their parents. White respondents were more sexually active than the Mexican-American respondents, but the latter reported more stable relationships with the father of the baby. The experiences of the adolescents are both summarized and presented in their own words. |
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