00:00This book had to be set contemporarily because, you know, 20, 30, 40 years ago, being a young
00:06parent was the norm. And today there's so much shame and stigma around young parents. As we see
00:13kind of the age of first-time parents rise, we see the criticism of young parents also rise.
00:21I think we have a very strange cultural relationship with teen parents and teen
00:26pregnancy, where there's, like, this judgment, but there's also this simultaneous, like, fascination,
00:32you know, with all of the teen mom shows and 16 and Pregnant and all of these cultural icons where
00:38we see white women as young mothers, while also being told, particularly by politicians, that the
00:46image of the young mother is black. And so I wanted us to see a wide spectrum of what young parents
00:53look like and the lives that they can live and not see this as a tragedy, because it's
01:00not, but it is something that requires support.
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