Data from a community sample of 493 pregnant Latina teenagers were used to test a mediated model of mate selection with 5 classes of variables: (a) male partner characteristics (antisocial behaviors, negative relationships with women, harm risk, and relationship length), (b) young women’s psychosocial variables (antisocial behaviors, drug use, social competence, and psychological distress), (c) social connectedness (healthy attachment, cultural pride, and positive neighborhood perception), (d) childhood experiences (abuse, neglect, and satisfaction with childhood), and (e) a structural variable (age). Multiple pathways predicted the women’s choice of male partner. Psychological distress was strongly related to choosing partners with negative relationships with women, confirming W. B. Swann’s (1983, 1990) selfverification hypothesis. Counseling implications are discussed. Pregnancy rates among adolescent girls in the United States have been dropping recently (Ventura, Clarke, & Matthews, 1996), although they remain alarmingly high relative with rates in the rest of the world. It is important that rates among Latinas are dropping at a much slower rate than they are for other groups (Ventura, Martin, Curtin, Matthews, & Park, 2000). In California, for example, 1992 birth rates per thousand were 79, 95, and 123, respectively, among White, Black, and Hispanic teenagers (Henshaw, 1997). We need to know much more about causes, consequences, and factors that influence pregnancy for this vulnerable group of teenagers. Despite the relatively large teenage pregnancy literature, relatively little research has focused on psychological determinants of teen pregnancy (Coley & Chase-Lansdale, 1998), on the male partners (Goodyear, Newcomb, & Allison, 2000), or on factors that affect the young women’s choice of a male partner. The focus of this article is on uncovering the characteristics or attributes of pregnant Latina teenagers that are most influential in their choice of mate. To date, most teen pregnancy research has focused on establishing frequencies and base rates and testing relatively simple direct effects. Few studies have examined more sophisticated models, and even fewer have examined the relative relationships between multiple psychosocial and environmental factors in regard to mate selection. We view the processes that shape mate selec