On helping to prevent teen pregnancy and also helping teen mothers at the same time And then you're riddled with this student debt, and you don't have a credential to show for it. You might have to stop out because of different circumstances. , for many, many Black parents who are in college, you don't even make it to the graduation stage. And so either you make it to the graduation stage and you have a tremendous amount of debt, but you're at least able to have that credential to try to get into a family-sustaining job. If you're a parenting college student and all of those costs, they stack up. And it is happening every day.Ĭhanging Face Of College Vital Federal Program To Help Parents In College Is 'A Drop In The Bucket' And I think it's something that many people, when we think about teen pregnancy, we really have no clue what's going on in these relationships with young people. We see that every day at Generation Hope in so many situations where we're supporting young parents whose children are the products of that reproductive coercion. It's more about the control that your partner can exert over you with a pregnancy and making sure that you stay with them, making sure that you stay home, making sure that you aren't working or pursuing your dreams, all of these various things that they find intimidating or a threat to the relationship. And oftentimes it's not because your partner is so excited about settling down and starting a family. I think this is another aspect of teen pregnancy that many people don't know about, which is that you often, as a young woman, are in these relationships where you're being pressured by your partner to get pregnant. On reproductive coercion and how her then-boyfriend didn't want her to be on the pill Her new memoir is called Pregnant Girl: A Story of Teen Motherhood, College, and Creating a Better Future for Young Families. Last year, she was named one of the inaugural awardees of the Black Voices for Black Justice Fund in recognition of her work addressing structural and systemic racism in America. Lewis, who is now in her 40s, was named a CNN Hero in 2014. You can do this.' It's about having a village." and you have a midterm the next day, we're going to get through it. It's about pairing them with cheerleaders, with people who say, 'You can do it - if you have a teething baby at 2 a.m. "It's not about pairing our students with experts. "These are the times that we need to rally around mothers, no matter how old they are or how they brought their children into the world," Lewis says. And what we see is that even access to birth control is a challenge for many young people. There's a sense of powerlessness that I think is happening for young people all across the country.
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