According to a recent survey, there is a major disconnect between the values and future Latino parents want for their kids and the soaring pregnancy rate. More than fifty percent of Latinas are pregnant in their teens.
The survey also found that 84 percent of Latino teens and 91 percent of Latino parents believe that graduating from college or university or having a promising career is the most important goal for a teen’s future.
Somewhere along the way, the aspirations fail to match up to reality. The survey attempts to examine some of the reasons for the disparity and why Latinas now have the highest teen birth rate among all ethnic and racial groups in the United States.
You can bet this comes down, to some extent, to education. Thankfully Obama moved the federal dollars away from abstinence-only education and into places where it might make a difference.
