| Name: | Angelica |
| Online Name: | Angie |
| Country: | United States |
| State: | California |
| Age: | 20 |
| Your Birthday: | 6/7/80 |
| Special Talents: | Web design, cooking, fast learner |
| Hobbies: | Web design, read |
| Where do you work? | home |
| Were you working when you became pregnant? If yes, doing what? | no |
| Are you in school? | no |
| If you've graduated, what is your degree? | I am not gaduated |
| How old were you when you had your first child? | 19 |
| Did you keep? abort? give up for adoption?: | kept... hi is my life |
| Was it the first time you had sex? | 18 |
| Were you and the father a couple? | yes |
| Are you still together? | yes |
| If you're not together, is the father involved? How is he involved? | enter here |
| Were you using protection against pregnancy? If yes, what kind? | enter here |
| If not, was it because you were trying to get pregnant? Please explain: | My boyfriend and I decided to have a baby and now both of us are proud parents |
| Did you know how you would support the baby? Support yourself? | Well, my boyfriend and I were going to get married so I suppose I did knew it... |
| Were you using protection against STDs? | no |
| How many children do you have? | 1 |
| What are their names, ages, birthdays? | David Abraham Salazar, 11 month, 7/23/99 |
| Was the pregnancy emotionally difficult? | yes |
| Was the pregnancy physically difficult? i.e. were there any medical problems? | no |
| What was/is the most difficult experience as a young mother? | no, everyday is the most difficult experience because you never know what's going to happen, but it's the most beautiful and marvelous experience too... |
| Was your family helpful/supportive? | yes |
| Did you stay at home with your parents? | no |
| Did your family help support you? The baby? Emotionally, financially, or both? | Only emotionally |
| Do they support you now? Emotionally, financially, or both? | Emotionally |
| Did/do you need public assistance? How did/does that make you feel? | no I did not |
| Was the father's family involved with the pregnancy? Emotionally, financially, or both? | Financially and a little emotionally |
| Did the father's family help support you? Emotionally, financially, or both? | no |
| Does the child have a relationship with the paternal Grandparents? | not much |
| Do you feel accepted by people your age? | sometimes |
| Do you feel like you have it harder than people your own age without children? | a little bit |
| Are you happy with the decisions you have made? (Be honest. . .it's ok to feel bad, we all do sometimes) | Yes, I'm happy but sometimes I feel so bad. Sometimes I would like to be alone, I would like to do things that now I can't do... I would like to breath and not feeling like if I was tied down |
| What are your personal goals? (goals for yourself as an individual not as a mother) | to be a good mother... beside that get slim, be a pretty woman, to have a willpower, study, work... and much more things |
| Have your goals changed since you became a parent? | yes |
| Do you feel that reaching your goals will be more difficult now that your a teen parent? | yes, but not because I am a mother but because I change |
| What would you tell a (school age) 12-18 year old girl that wanted to get pregnant? | Think about it. I know you think it's beautiful... and really it is but it's so difficult... you have to dedicate yourself to the baby 24 hours. You don't have time to be yourself, to go out, to take care of yourself... really think about it... |
| How do you think being a Young Mother has changed you? | I love to be a young mother because when I will be 40, he is going to be 21 so we will understand each other but My life change a lot, I can't explain in witch sense it has change but certainly it has change |
| How do you think society looks upon teen pregnancy? | I think in USA is almost normal teen pregnancy, but In Spain, where I am from, It's almost a sin. |
| Why do you think there are so many teen parents? | I don't know. I would like to think that is because we decide it, but the truth is that we think that is so easy to be a parents or we think that "IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN TO ME" |
| List 5 Pro's to being a teen Mother? | We are going to be together more time, we can understand each other more than other parents who will have their children later on, we will be able to play with our children without fear of loosing our breath or been tired, when our kids will be adults we will be still young so we can enjoy life, when he will be an adult people may think that I am his sister :) |
| List 5 Con's to being a teen Mother?: | there are some things that you can't do when you have a baby, like go out in the night... (some parents do it, but I don't), some times I have to get up at night, I have to cook ALL DAY... |
| What do you expect to get out of being a member of Young Mothers?: | I expect support and a little bit of understanding |
| Today's Date: | 6/23/00 |