Struggles of a Latino second generation: Mothers too young - washingtonpost.com: ...Even as the teen pregnancy rate for other racial and ethnic groups has fallen substantially in the past 15 years, it remains stubbornly high among Latinas. As many as one in four Hispanics born in the United States to immigrant parents has a child before her 20th birthday, according to a statistical analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Child Trends, a nonpartisan research center. Only Hispanics who come to the United States as immigrants have a higher teen birth rate.
Teen parenthood often adds an extra hurdle for the offspring of Latino immigrants. Many are already struggling to get enough education to overcome their parents' high level of poverty, limited schooling and lack of legal status.
