Boston's segregation and racial division has had a widespread and unfathomable impact on the city's Hispanic residents who live in low opportunity neighborhoods and have very little access to healthy development resources.
Youth of color, principally, grow up in impoverished and/or marginalized environments, and they're often plagued with inequalities, disparities and other changing factors. Nonetheless, young Latinos are working hard to sidestep poor education and poor health outcomes to better embrace wellbeing, advancement and success.
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) published a report Growing Up LGBT in America, which slightly challenges findings that state that Latinos are accepting of the LGBT community.
Effective parenting in the lives of maturing Hispanic youth is essential when intending to prevent problem behaviors such as the use and abuse of substances and risky sexual behaviors. Without proper parental guidance, Hispanic youth suffer increased risk of contracting HIV because they will likely engage in drug use and risky sex, a new study from the University of Michigan indicated.
Misinformation, ignorance, difficulties gaining access, fear of maltreatment, and worries over violations of privacy are some of the obstacles that keep Latinos from visiting healthcare facilities and/or sex and reproductive health clinics.
