“…Specific to adolescent mothers, this may mean that prevention programs, which typically focus on supporting adolescent mothers' parenting processes (e.g., Easterbrooks, Kotake, Raskin, & Bumgamer, 2016;Jacobs et al, 2016), should also consider adolescent mothers' experiences that are not solely tied to their parenting status. Growing evidence suggests that parents' discrimination experiences impact parent-child interactions and children's developmental outcomes (Zeiders, Umaña-Taylor, Jahromi, Updegraff, & White, 2016). Thus, practitioners and family members should be aware that experiences of discrimination can pose significant risks to adolescent mothers, their ERI development, their parenting, and ultimately their young children's development.…”