Christian Rodríguez: What teen pregnancy looks like in Latin America
Christian Rodríguez: El embarazo adolescente en Latinoamérica
TED Fellow Christian Rodríguez explores themes related to gender and identity, working with communities all over the world. Full bio
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of teenage mothers in Latin America.
madres adolescentes en Latinoamérica.
a teenage mother when she was 16.
a sus 16 años.
myself and my origins.
y para comprender mis orígenes.
in Latin America
en Latinoamérica
sexually active adolescents
adolescentes sexualmente activas
of 12 to 19 years old.
los 12 y los 19 años.
is not just about young pregnancies.
no es solo embarazo juvenil.
and economic violence.
y es violencia económica.
antes de cumplir 18 años
before they are 18
standard of living.
un estándar de vida adecuado.
to education and health care
y al cuidado de la salud
among teen pregnancies.
en los embarazos adolescentes.
gets pregnant before she is 16,
queda embarazada antes de los 16 años,
increases fourfold
aumenta cuatro veces
in her community.
en su comunidad.
en su proyecto de vida.
under the age of 18 are single mothers,
menores de 18 años son madres solteras,
between father and child,
entre padre e hijo,
le prestaba mucha atención.
to educate boys differently
a los niños de manera diferente,
send boys to school but not girls.
a los niños a la escuela, no a las niñas.
heightened the gender equity gap
aumentó la brecha de equidad de género
of traditional roles.
los roles tradicionales.
equal opportunities to girls,
de oportunidades para las chicas,
de embarazo adolescente.
between the ages of 10 to 14
entre los 10 y los 14 años
extremadamente vulnerable,
for men twice their age.
hombres que duplican su edad.
abuse by her father,
a las dos hermanas de Gloria,
she has butterflies in her hair,
ella tiene mariposas en el pelo,
to portray this mother with dignity.
retratar a esta madre con dignidad.
younger than 15 is a growing trend,
de 15 años son una tendencia creciente,
countries in the world.
by bad social and cultural inequalities,
desigualdades sociales y culturales,
further increases this divide.
aumenta aún más esta brecha.
to being part of the solution
a ser parte de la solución
and emphatically
que implícita y enfáticamente
de las chicas.
for boys and girls become similar,
de chicos y chicas sean similares,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Christian Rodríguez - Documentary photographerTED Fellow Christian Rodríguez explores themes related to gender and identity, working with communities all over the world.
Why you should listen
Christian Rodríguez is developing two main long-term projects: "Teen Mom," about teenage pregnancy in Latin America; and a personal project on magical realism, the Latin American literary trend. His work has been exhibited in festivals all over the world, such as GetxoPhoto, PhotoEspaña, Paraty Em Foco, Photo Phnom Penh Festival, Photobook Bristol, Photoville and the "Bienal de Fotografía" of the "Centro de la Imagen" (Mexico), and it has been published internationally, including National Geographic, the New York Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, El Mundo and others.
In addition to his work as a photographer, Rodríguez is creator and director of SAN JOSE FOTO International festival in Uruguay. He has been awarded the Roberto Villagraz Scholarship of EFTI (Spain), Nuevo Talento Fnac (Spain), Ojo de Pez Human Rights First Prize (Spain) and Getty Instagram Grant 2016 among others. Rodríguez gives workshops and lectures in Latin America and Europe, and he is a member of Prime Collective. He became a TED Fellow in 2017.
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