Title: Latina adolescent childbearing in East Los Angeles
First published: 1998
Description: Pamela Erickson draws on both quantitative data and case histories to trace the pathways to motherhood for Latina teens. After situating her study within current research on teen pregnancy, she looks specifically at teen mothers enrolled in programs at Women's Hospital in East L.A.

She describes the teens' relationships to their babies' fathers and their own families and discusses how these relationships affect whether teen mothers want to become pregnant, their use of prenatal, postpartum, and family planning services, and their ability to prevent a repeat pregnancy. Erickson describes culturally appropriate intervention efforts and assesses the limitations of prevention programs in institutional settings such as schools and clinics.
Subjects: Hispanic American teenage mothers, Hispanic American men, Attitudes, Social conditions, Family relationships, Prevention, Teenage pregnancy, Hispanic americans, social conditions, Pregnancy, adolescent
Places: East Los Angeles, California
LC classification: HQ759.4 .E78 1998