Just Ask Us: A Conversation with First Nations Teenage Moms
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To ask other readers questions about Just Ask Us , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Jun 04, Erin rated it liked it Shelves: I wanted to give this a 3.
The personal accounts of the teens were great and I wish there were more, but I understand the need to protect privacy. I did not really care for the commentary from the front line workers, and I think their stories might have been more useful if they were written out in specifics, like the thoughts of the teens. However, I think this work fills a huge gap in the literature and I would like to see more books like this that dare to take an honest look at a touc I wanted to give this a 3.
However, I think this work fills a huge gap in the literature and I would like to see more books like this that dare to take an honest look at a touchy cultural subject. Jun 04, Carly rated it liked it Shelves: An honest, straightforward look at teenage pregnancy and attitudes towards and knowledge- or lack of knowledge of sex.
Sobering, but ultimately hopeful, this provides a good dialogue on a touchy subject, not just for First Nations but for all teenage girls. Nov 15, Jody rated it it was amazing.
Great look into teenage sexuality and why teenage motherhood seems to just happen. Sep 30, Joan Galat added it. Celeste rated it really liked it Jan 16, Jennifer rated it really liked it Mar 06, Angie rated it it was amazing Oct 24, Diana Mclaughlin rated it it was amazing Jun 03, Caroline Woodward rated it it was amazing Nov 15, Jessica D rated it liked it Jun 18, Wendy rated it really liked it Nov 08, Sejlaaljic rated it really liked it Jan 29, Marina rated it it was amazing Jan 07, Sean Modeste rated it it was amazing Jan 23, Patrick van Loosen rated it really liked it Sep 14, For our community, we have all these plans and aspirations and yet re-building community is a very difficult chore when you have so many teenagers taken up with raising babies in a really difficult situation.
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I had my children, then went back to university. I am now working, like many of my peers, building community.
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There are some empty spaces in our homes now. I would say, living in a First Nation community, there is more activity, more consciousness of making community, than there is anywhere else. There is huge thinking going into it, in every field. But there is a really, really strong feeling that we want every kid and we have ambitions and plans for every child.
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How do you feel these days when you hear another teenager in your neighbourhood is pregnant? I just know that that child can be fine if there is the support. It really is about the support the child and her mother gets. But I do worry, because I know immediately that that girl is going to be in distress right away. And I want that child to have the same opportunities as other children. When my daughter had her baby, I could see there were more things that could happen to set her back. Are you generally a committed person by nature or does the community ask you to get involved?
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I figured that out after a while. In , Sylvia Olsen began a community study with aboriginal teen parents, believing that the best way to shed light on the issue is to listen first to the parents themselves. Just Ask Us is a result of this project, in which thirteen Tsartlip teen moms participated. Just Ask Us takes a comprehensive, first-hand look at First Nations teen mothers, offering ways to counteract the intractable cycle of poverty and turn reserve communities into places of hope for the next generation.
Olsen explores issues of teenage sexuality and relationships, birth control, abortion, and violence.
She examines aboriginal and non-aboriginal cultural attitudes and practices and how they affect the lives of young moms and their children. Her book weaves the threads of these young mothers' lives together with colours of desperation, enthusiasm, impossibility, and hope. Read more Read less. English Due to its large file size, this book may take longer to download.
Get to Know Us. Aboriginal girls are four and a half times more likely to be teen moms than girls from the general Teen moms are nothing new. Diana Mclaughlin rated it it was amazing Jun 03, Sylvia Olsen was born and brought up in Victoria, BC. No library descriptions found. The outcome is Just Ask Us , an interesting combination of action research and authentic personal story-telling. Until she was fourteen, Josie was pretty ordinary.
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