Last 06 updated 10:01 PM Saturday, Aug 2011
Attempts, the reason for Kern County notoriously high teen birth rate tie is not easy. Some blame of High Council of poverty or low level of education, while to discuss other pop culture, risky behavior or parents that reference not ready, the birds and the bees are.
But a glaring statistic are not ignored. Nationwide, while teenage girl pregnant, will be three of the 10 for Hispanic teens, chances are a full 50 percent. 20 Years ago, more than half of Hispanic women have their first child. And in the core County, Hispanics are the fastest growing segment of the population: between 2000 and 2010, the Hispanic population grew 63 percent, according to the U.S. census figures.
This is not to our teenage pregnancy problem only on an adult debt. The birth rate among Spanish young people have in recent years come down - although not as fast as other populations. And local teen birth rate for white, black and other ethnic groups are also higher than the nation-wide and national average. But seriously addressing teen pregnancy in the core County services take a closer look at the factors in the game in the fastest growing segment of our population.
We all have a substantial monetary incentive to do so. Between 2004 and 2005, a slight decline in the California meant teen birth rate that 1,419 of less teens, save of California gave birth to taxpayers more than $ 44 million. At the time of the study, all teen Hispanics accounted for 72 per cent births in California.
"I think that our efforts need to be targeted for specific communities and populations", said Bill Phelps, head of programmes for Clinica Sierra Vista, the services of teen mothers and contracts with school districts gender courses offer provides. "The message that we will be heard of all." "If you wandered new here and new language and your cultural norm is a family in your teenagers have, (our message) can fall on deaf ears."
Recent research that has begun to more on Hispanics has determined that a statement to do news to connect with the community can have birth rate with the failure of traditional prevention for their persistent high teen.
Standard prevention messages feature often teen pregnancy as a destructive behavior that may jeopardize future ambitions. But in many Latino cultures, motherhood is a deeply rooted standard created a contradictory message for Latina teens estimated at any age.
Thus "Many teen-pregnancy messages in the Latino community messages have seen as anti-family, anti-baby, laws", said Bill Albert, Chief program officer for the national campaign to prevent teen and unplanned pregnancy.
Messages directed at Hispanic representation should avoid babies as destroyer of life, Albert said. Instead she should emphasise said that "it is not about love of babies, it is about timing and experience", Albert.
While cultural influences Latina birth rate impact teen, is teen pregnancy largely a socio-economic problem, according to a report of UC San Francisco, released in March, which broke down in the reproductive factors in California Hispanic.
The study found that "Lack of hope for education and career opportunities" was widely questioned among Hispanic youth. Foreign born Hispanic explains in particular, while they wanted to go to College, they perceived that their inability to help State and federal level, would make it virtually impossible.
Silvia HENRIQUEZ, Executive Director of the national Latina Institute for reproductive health, wrote in the Huffington Post in the year 2009, socio-economic obstacles are still more than the Basic.
"For many Latinas birth control are using the top barriers to trade..." Transport, lack health insurance or cash for health services, confusing and immigration rules for households with a combination of citizens and non-citizens, intimidation, and lack of leadership on the available services. "If teen pregnancy prevention programmes and news ignore these obstacles, Latinas are distanced education efforts of gender."
Kern County rural nature probably some of these challenges connections said Phelps Clinica Sierra Vista. While it can be a clinic that provides free birth control in Arvin, a teen can be concerned to see you there - an aunt, a mother, a neighbor? A clinic Bakersfield may be an option, but this requires a drive search or looking for money for bus price and an hour on the bus each way.
In the Los Angeles County might be a Latina with similar circumstances, take a bus to a different neighborhood 10 minutes away and visit a clinic, Phelps said. This may explain why teen birth rate among Hispanics in Los Angeles as the core, low are, though, the Hispanic population is larger.
In the next two years, will retool some his teenage pregnancy prevention programmes Clinica Sierra Vista and will focus greater efforts in Arvin and Lamont, where the population is almost entirely Latino. Phelps hopes that will inform some better strategies for the prevention of teen pregnancy among Latinas.
But it is also important parents. Albert, the national campaign to prevent teen and unplanned pregnancy, said that his organization's research shows consistently that Hispanic teens cite parents as influential in their decisions as peers, pop culture, or partners. Still, other studies show that Hispanics are parents likely not to discuss sex with their children.
"I think the message to all parents... and Latino parents, it is also that they really play a role here,", Albert said. "Speak your kids about sex on TV, Internet, school people." "You're part of this conversation going or not?"
Kern County, each teen birth survey is consistently at the bottom to make any progress on this difficult and self-perpetuating problem, we have a conversation with new urgency to resume.
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