Teenage childbearing as inequality, by Wilson Hernández
“Teenage mothers are concentrated in certain areas of Lima. Not only that. In addition, living in a neighborhood where there is a pregnant adolescent increases the probability of becoming such. This would be a kind of ‘social contagion’ in an environment that also normalizes motherhood when it is not very high in the neighborhood. ” In his new op-ed for RPP Noticias, our adjunct researcher Wilson Hernández shares Selene Cueva’s findings on the spatial relationship in teenage childbearing in Metropolitan Lima.
