Former 'Pregnant Girl' Builds Support To Help Other Teen Moms

Former 'Pregnant Girl' Builds Support To Help Other Teen Moms Enlarge this image toggle caption Elissa Nadworny/NPR Elissa Nadworny/NPR When Nicole Lynn Lewis got pregnant in high school, she thought it might end her dream of going to college and having a career. Enlarge this image Penguin Random House Penguin Random House On reproductive coercion and how her then-boyfriend didn't want her to be on the pill I think this is another aspect of teen pregnancy that many people don't know about, which is that you often, as a young woman, are in these relationships where you're being pressured by your partner to get pregnant. And I think it's something that many people, when we think about teen pregnancy, we really have no clue what's going on in these relationships with young people. And also we can make sure that we're removing barriers for those young people who do experience the pregnancy.. You're missing the mark if you're working in teen pregnancy and you're not naming the role of race and really talking about: How do we address these underlying issues that can often lead to a teen pregnancy that are beyond contraception and beyond sex education? I think the other thing that we have to start to really name — I talk to people who work in the teen pregnancy prevention field, and they're not talking about race.