Chris Pena testifies on parental alienation and youth health risks
Chris Pena, a birth doula and EMT, testifies about high youth suicide, pregnancy, and STD rates linked to broken families. He shares his experience as a parentally alienated father and advocates for keeping families together through community programs and birthing centers.
My name is Chris Pena.
I am a birth doula and journalist out of CUNY Kingsborough Community College.
I've noticed firsthand as an emergency medical technician why we need these beacons for the youth when I witnessed their high suicide rate.
Their high pregnancy rate and their high STD rate due to not having any guidance from broken families.
As a survivor of domestic violence and a parentally alienated father of two for 10 years and 15 birthdays, I began advocating for maternal care and against parental alienation.
And to keep families together.
And now CUNY Kingsborough Community College is helping me build my freestanding birthing center.
So in order to get these beacons ready to go, I believe we should keep advocating against parental alienation to better guide these youth the way we do through our annual movements like the Brides March to bring
femicides rates down and keep guiding these youth because now everybody, all the youth around me, all want birthing centers now.
So it works.
And thank you for having me.