teenage pregnancy

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Shawna

2016
Shawna, an 18-year-old living in Oakland, California waits to have sex for the very first time with her longtime boyfriend, Philippe, but the protection fails and she becomes pregnant. Philippe wants her to abort the baby but she can't go through with it. Shawna finds juggling motherhood and college extremely difficult and makes a mistake that endangers her baby.

Isabella

2016
Isabella and Carlos live in St. Louis, Missouri. While finishing their senior year in high school, they decide to have a baby together and get married. When Carlos joins the military and tragedy strikes, Isabella is devastated. A year later, she is reunited with Pete, a boy she thinks is her second chance at love. But he could have a dark side that puts Isabella and her baby's safety in danger.

Jasmine

2016
Jasmine is a 19-year-old college freshman--and a professional dancer in Las Vegas. After an unfortunate incident at a cast party, she finds herself pregnant forcing her to acknowledge that she can't take care of her daughter and gives her up for adoption. She then returns home to New Jersey in defeat but ultimately finds herself back on her feet and self-sufficient, determined to get her daughter back.

Aleecia

2016
Fifteen-year-old Aleecia can't believe it when Kyle, the 18-year-old captain of the football team, falls for her. When she gets pregnant, she tells Kyle, and he stands by her--at least for a while. Will their love weather Kyle's move to college while Aleecia waits for him at home in Fort Pierce, Florida? Is he the stand-up guy she thought he was?.

Candace

2016
Candace, a 17-year-old high school senior, is a smart girl who attends an elite prep school and is on her way to Princeton. She hopes her walk on the wild side will both punish and attract the attention of her very absent parents when she finds herself pregnant. Faced with the reality of leaving her innocence, Candace struggles to choose the right path--motherhood or the Ivy League?.

Expecting

2016
Three girls who couldn't be more different from each other meet at a program for pregnant teens when the town's high school isn't an option. The girls soon learn how to rely on each other through the drama.

Look at you now

my journey from shame to strength
In 1979, Liz Pryor, a seventeen-year-old girl from a privileged family in the Chicago suburbs, discovers she is pregnant. Her parents are horrified and determined that none of her friends, siblings, or community ever know about it. They drive her three states away and force her into residency in a government-run facility for delinquent and impoverished pregnant teenage girls. A fish-out-of-water, Liz is forced to question everything she thought she knew about life, and comes out of the experience a changed woman.

Cradle and All

2016
Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private investigator, is hired by the Archdiocese of Boston to investigate two immaculate conceptions as terrifying forces of light and darkness gather.

Searching for beautiful

2014
After she discovers she is pregnant, teenaged Brynn loses her friends and boyfriend, but things turn around when she finds new friends at the local community center.

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