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"JENNINGS, Mo. — Brittnee Marsaw was born to a 15-year-old mother in St. Louis
and raised by a grandmother who had given birth even younger. Half grown by the
time her mother could support her, Ms. Marsaw joined her three states away but
never found the bond she sought and calls the teen births of preceding
generations “the family curse.”
Ana Alvarez was born in Guatemala to a teenage mother so poor and besieged that
she gave her young daughter to a stranger, only to snatch her back. Soon her
mother left to seek work in the United States, and after years of futilely
awaiting her return Ms. Alvarez made the same risky trip, becoming an
undocumented teenager in Washington, D.C., to reunite with the mother she
scarcely knew.
While their experiences diverge, Ms. Marsaw and Ms. Alvarez share a telling
trait. Stung by the struggles of their teenage mothers, both made unusually
self-conscious vows not to become teen mothers themselves. And both say that
delaying motherhood gave them — and now their children — a greater chance of
success.
Their decisions highlight profound changes in two related forces that shape how
opportunity is conveyed or impeded from one generation to the next. Teen births
have fallen by more than three-quarters in the last three decades, a change of
such improbable magnitude that experts struggle to fully explain it. Child
poverty also plunged, raising a complex question: Does cutting teen births
reduce child poverty, or does cutting child poverty reduce teen births?"
Via
Future Crunch 195: Density Is Not Destiny
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https://futurecrunch.com/goodnews-global-democracy-cancer-usa-rhinos-india/>
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