Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater: Situating Young Filipino Mothers and Fathers beyond the Dominant Discourse on Adolescent Pregnancy
- 1 January 1997
- book chapter
- Published by SAGE Publications
Abstract
According to the latest health assessment report of Filipinos in San Francisco (Pilipino Health Mini-Forums Committee, 1993), Filipino teens have the highest pregnancy rates among Asians (6.7%) and, in 1991, had the highest rate of increase in the number of births (65%) compared to African Americans, Latinas, whites, and other Asian groups (see Table 18.1). In 1992, ...Keywords
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