The purpose of this study was to examine adolescent mothers’ perceptions of how individuals within the schools viewed them and how those views shaped their educational experiences. The sample consisted of 83 primarily Hispanic adolescent mothers who participated in one of 19 semi-structured focus group interviews during the 2014-2015 school year. Although we did not specifically explore stigma, the adolescent mothers described feeling stigmatized by school personnel and their non-parenting classmates. They also discussed how school policies were not conducive to parenting. Based on the results, recommendations are provided that will help school personnel effectively meet the needs of this population by creating an atmosphere in which the students feel safe, supported, and are able to learn.

“Students Getting Pregnant Are Not Gonna Go Nowhere”: Manifestations of Stigma in Adolescent Mothers’ Educational Environment:

The purpose of the current study was to explore how adolescent mothers experienced pregnancy and parenthood within the context of residential foster care. Adolescent mothers in foster care are a vulnerable population although little research has explored their experiences, particularly from a resiliency framework. The present study begins to fill this gap by conducting focus group interviews with 39 adolescent mothers living in residential foster care. Using thematic analytic methodology, we uncovered themes that highlighted not only the mothers’ struggles, but also their capacities for resilience. Specifically, the mothers experienced societal stigma, parenting judgment, and challenging relationships with their child(ren)’s father as common struggles. However, the mothers described how the social support they received and the relationships they formed with the other adolescent mothers living in residential foster care allowed them to develop resiliency including through specific lifestyle changes that helped them to prepare for motherhood.

Resiliency and Adolescent Motherhood in the Context of Residential Foster Care

The familiar story about young pregnant and parenting Latinas relies on commonsense logic about the timing of reproductive lives. We explore young mothers' own sense making, captured in local vernacular through participants' digital story depictions, our fieldnotes of digital storytelling workshop talk, and participants' follow-up interview reflections about enduring judgment and doing their lives. In this article, we introduce the Hear Our Stories project and present key digital stories and related ethnographic material that serve as local exemplars of “doing your life.” Findings reveal ways participants negotiate value making about their reproductive lives. As a narrative intervention, digital storytelling helps to gain a firmer grasp on social worlds and to better understand inequality, while also engaging participants in a process that affords them the opportunity to shift from being a judged teen mom to co-creators of knowledge and change as strategic storytellers.

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“Doing Your Life”: Narrative Intervention with Young Mothers as Storytellers

Maternity (one of the roles most demanding and least valued by society) can cause that women interrupt or drop out their studies—which limits their job and professional development opportunities, coupled with the possible rejection and discrimination from society. The aim of this work was to analyze the perceptions that Mexican young undergraduates have regarding maternity in the workplace and school. A quantitative study was conducted.
Method: Data were collected through a Likert-type survey questionnaire, which was applied to 2 360 young people from two institutions of higher education in Mexico City, during the months of September to November 2017. Factor analysis and generalized linear models were used.
Results: It was found that the sons of mothers dedicated to their housework were the ones who perceived strongly that maternity is an obstacle for female employment. In the case of women, the ones who had a work activity showed a lower perception that maternity was an obstacle for the working sector.
Conclusion: It is concluded that men continue to maintain beliefs that motherhood is an obstacle, and that it cuts the working life of women—that is because men continue to attribute to women the responsibility of raising children as well as of preventing pregnancies.

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La maternidad: percepción universitaria sobre sus efectos en el ámbito laboral, académico y social

Understanding Barriers African American Teenage Mothers Face in Pursuit of Higher Education by Aldison Middleton-Hinton MSW, University of Southern Mississippi, 2010 BS, William Carey University, 2008 Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Social Work Walden University November 2017

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Understanding Barriers African American Teenage Mothers face in Pursuit of Higher Education

Researchers have long discussed the negative implications of discourses about teenage pregnancy The authors of this article join this discussion by focusing on the tension between social/educational imperatives to prevent teenage pregnancy and the educational imperative to support all students Drawing from data from the My Pregnancy Story Project—a mixed-method study of the lived experiences of 27 young pregnant and/or mothering women—this article illustrates that pregnant and mothering students often endure school environments in which they are consistently reminded of their “mistake” by teachers, peers, and sex education learning activities Although some participants reported feeling stigmatized and silenced, these young women also articulated what they want from their schools Reflecting on these youth voices, the authors call for school personnel and those making policy decisions to examine and revise school policies in the areas of harassment and bullying, school codes of conduct, personnel hiring and training, health and sex education pedagogy, and access to information

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