This article describes the Latina teen pregnancy in the United States as a national crisis. It explains that Latino community has been paying the price for abstinence-only education in school and offers suggestions for mitigating teen pregnancy among young Latinas.
This article introduces a new manual created by the Latino Initiative that emphasizes that Latino adolescents are straddling two different worlds and that they need help learning how to navigate between the two. It highlights the importance of family and focusing on parent-teen communication, explaining that young Latinos who report feeling close to their parents are less likely to be sexually active at an early age.