mothers, and general misogyny. This is especially true in an anti-teen pregnancy campaign that ran in New York City in 2013 called “Think Being A Teen Parent Won’t Cost You?”, produced by New York City’s Human Resource Administration (HRA). This ad campaign is problematic because it ignores the bigger issues at hand: institutional structures that perpetuate teenage pregnancy (patriarchy, systemic racism and abuse, welfare, educational, judicial systems, etc.), mass culture’s portrayal of teenage pregnancy…
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