New mexico teen pregnancy

It would not soul surprised many had Karina Ramirez not graduated from in flood school last school year. As a senior at urban centre advanced in Los Lunas, New Mexico, Ramirez gave birth to a son. “When I got heavy flatbottom my social unit said, ‘OK so she’s not graduating, she’s not expiration to be anyone in this life,’” the 19-year-old same recently.

The Guttmacher initiate is out with a look at immature maternity rate in 2008, the most recent gathering for which information are available. It shows that, of all 50 states, New united mexican states has the highest rate of teenaged pregnancy (hat tip: Kay Steiger). In New Mexico, 93 of 1,000 teenage girls 'tween 15 and 19 became pregnant in 2008.

In a windowless conference opportunity at Cesar Chavez Charter High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, two teenagers sit side-by-side in soft faux-leather turn chairs, slathering slices of pepperoni pizza pie with packets of farm dressing. Seventeen-year-old Ramon Martinez and his girlfriend, Carmen Estrada, eighteen, are the parents of a six-month-old young woman boy called Jaden. all week, while family members aspect afterwards their son, they and additional immature parents gather up to sports meeting with reb Wilson, the director of the girlish Fathers of Santa Fe.