Cultural myths about pregnancy: Culture’s role in expectations
Cultural myths about pregnancy: Culture’s role in expectations
By Hope Gillette, Saludify Cravings for pickles and ice cream, daily morning sickness, and ravenous hunger are just a few of what researcher Danielle Bessett, an assistant professor of sociology, calls […]
Teenage Mothers And Unwanted Pregnancies
Life with kids, even with a partner that helps in their upbringing, can be difficult. But facing the same reality as a single, teenage mother who never thought that it […]
I’ve Learned To Love Babies, Now I’m Waiting Until I’m Ready
Sometimes it amazes me how much we’re ruled by biology. When I was younger, I would blatantly ignore any babies that I saw. It wasn’t that I was trying to […]
Latinos More Likely To Be Wrong About Perceived Infertility
Depending on one’s life plans, this may come as a pleasant or unpleasant surprise to all the young couples having unprotected sex out there: They’re not as infertile as they […]
Telling My Mexican Family: “Yes, I Want Kids, Just Not Now”
My grandma and aunts keep asking me when I’m going to start popping out some babies, now that I am living with my boyfriend. I’m 27 and my aunt insists […]
A Latina Catholic On Texas’ Overturned Abortion Law
By Christina Rodriguez As a Latina who was born and raised a practicing Catholic, I consider abortion to be a pretty terrible idea, but I understand extreme situations. A diabetic […]
Should I Choose Love, Or Becoming A Mother?
Dear Martha, I’m so scared. I love my partner but my partner confessed that he has a disease that is degenerative and eventually can not bear children. I love him […]
Latinas Benefit Big From New Insurance Guidelines
By Maria Elena Pérez, Interim Executive Director National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health Latinas by far disproportionately benefit in every area of the new Department of Health and Human Services […]
How Do I Decide Whether Or Not To Get An Abortion?
Dear Martha, I find myself in a difficult situation because I have little time to make the decision whether or not to abort my pregnancy. I’m 18 years old and […]
Border Residents Delivered By Midwives Barred Entry To U.S.
By Jazmine Ulloa Published: May 13, 2010 IT WAS JUST ANOTHER SWELTERING MONDAY MORNING in August. Yuliana Trinidad Castro sat in her truck with her mother, sister, and newborn daughter, windows […]
