Advocates for Youth, a Washington, DC–based nonprofit that studies and advises on youth health issues, notes that a “complex interaction of factors” affects the lives of young Latinas. For example, Latinos are disproportionately impacted by poverty: estimates of Hispanic families living at or below the poverty level hover around 25 percent. Further, about 40 percent of the entire Latino population was born outside of the United States. The daughters in these families, whose English skills are honed at school, often serve as cultural liaisons for parents whose struggle to navigate a new country is hampered by a language barrier.

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