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Fighting Stigma

Fighting Stigma Affilia: Journal of Women Women Creating Change and Social Work Volume 22 Number 3 Fall 2007 302–306 © Sage Publications 10.1177/0886109907302253 http://aff.sagepub.com An Adolescent Mother Takes Action hosted at http://online.sagepub.com Carol M. Lewis Megan Scarborough Charlie Rose Katherine B. Quirin University of Texas at Austin ike many recent high school graduates, 18-year-old Charlie Rose eagerly anticipated L the start of her freshman year in college. One of a select few accepted to Plan II, the nationally ranked honors program at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, Charlie declared a premed–math double major. She dreams of a career working with the uninsured as an obstetrician-gynecologist. Similar to her Plan II peers, she has a record of high acad- emic achievement during high school (she was a Hispanic–National Merit Scholar, high school salutatorian, and recipient of more than $100,000 in scholarships), which is com- plemented by an impressive list of extracurricular activities (working for two nonprofit organizations and clocking more than 300 hours of volunteer work annually for various causes). Unlike most of her peers, though, Charlie’s most important “extracurricular activ- ity” is mothering Cae, her toddler son. Charlie caught the attention of researchers at the UT Center for Social http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

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Affilia: Journal of Women Women Creating Change and Social Work Volume 22 Number 3 Fall 2007 302–306 © Sage Publications 10.1177/0886109907302253 http://aff.sagepub.com An Adolescent Mother Takes Action hosted at http://online.sagepub.com Carol M. Lewis Megan Scarborough Charlie Rose Katherine B. Quirin University of Texas at Austin ike many recent high school graduates, 18-year-old Charlie Rose eagerly anticipated L the start of her freshman year in college. One of a select few accepted to Plan II, the nationally ranked honors program at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, Charlie declared a premed–math double major. She dreams of a career working with the uninsured as an obstetrician-gynecologist. Similar to her Plan II peers, she has a record of high acad- emic achievement during high school (she was a Hispanic–National Merit Scholar, high school salutatorian, and recipient of more than $100,000 in scholarships), which is com- plemented by an impressive list of extracurricular activities (working for two nonprofit organizations and clocking more than 300 hours of volunteer work annually for various causes). Unlike most of her peers, though, Charlie’s most important “extracurricular activ- ity” is mothering Cae, her toddler son. Charlie caught the attention of researchers at the UT Center for Social

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