School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Center for Prevention & Early Intervention Policy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
Infant Ment Health J. 2019 Sep;40(5):690-709. doi: 10.1002/imhj.21803. Epub 2019 Jul 18.
Reproductive justice advocates emphasize the rights of women to choose to have children, to decide the conditions under which they give birth, and to parent their children with support, safety, and dignity. This article examines what a reproductive justice perspective contributes to infant mental health work with teenage mothers and their families. It explores the historical framing of teenage pregnancy in which young mothers are the cause of a variety of social problems and in which the primary policy and practice approach is pregnancy prevention. The article offers alternative framings of teenage childbearing, based on reproductive justice principles, which focus on social conditions surrounding teenage parenthood and the meaning of motherhood in the lives of young women. These alternative frames shift the practice agenda to eradicating unjust social conditions and providing supports for young women in their roles as parents. The article then describes ways in which two infant mental health programs have incorporated reproductive justice principles into their work with young families: Chicago's community doula model and Florida's Young Parents Project for court-involved teenage parents. Finally, the article extracts a set of principles deriving from a reproductive justice perspective that are relevant to infant mental health work with young families.
生殖正义倡导者强调妇女有权选择生育、决定生育条件，并在支持、安全和尊严的情况下养育子女。本文探讨了生殖正义视角对青少年母亲及其家庭的婴儿心理健康工作的贡献。它探讨了青少年怀孕的历史框架，在这种框架中，年轻母亲是各种社会问题的根源，而主要的政策和实践方法是预防怀孕。本文基于生殖正义原则，提供了对青少年生育的替代框架，这些框架侧重于青少年父母周围的社会条件以及年轻女性生活中母性的意义。这些替代框架将实践议程转移到消除不公正的社会条件，并为年轻女性在作为父母的角色中提供支持。然后，本文描述了两个婴儿心理健康项目如何将生殖正义原则纳入其与年轻家庭的工作中：芝加哥的社区导乐模式和佛罗里达州涉及法庭的青少年父母的青年父母项目。最后，本文从生殖正义视角中提取了一套与婴儿心理健康工作相关的原则。
