Male Teen Parent Legal Support Encouragement

Excerpt from my Discussion Post related to Pregnancy Prevention and Parenting Support for Expectant and Parenting Youth in Foster Care

[Still getting into the habit of sharing content.]

I'm interested in exploring methods to increase racial equity practices for teen male parents. Youth with foster care experience often are without financial privilege for a myriad of reasons, including the lack of financial support from their parents. Young adults, who are not able to contribute financially to the well-being of their child or children, face vicious consequences, including, but not limited to incarceration and fines. It's considered a federal offense to not be able provide child support money regularly, and regard to social dynamics, such as having foster care experience, is taken little to none. Facing penalties, like having a driver license suspended, for example, often create other issues in areas of employment, finances, relationships and mental healthy.There are other valuable contributions to child support, separate from finances. The circumstance of expectant and parenting youth who has experienced foster care is challenging enough. Let's not penalize young adults for circumstances they could not control.Our youth are vulnerable; such severe penalties related to finances are not developmentally appropriate for some of the youth effected by federal and/ or state child support policies. I'm interested in offering care and stirring legal support to expectant and parenting youth in foster care, by having less severe child support penalties, related to finances, especially for those who are contributing.


May this post be shared for my documentation of a passion point.

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