Sentences with phrase «as societal stigma»

Because of their increased dropout rate, as well as societal stigma surrounding them and a number of other factors, teenage parents and their children are at risk of experiencing worse psychosocial and socioeconomic outcomes than their peers (Kiselica & Pfaller, 1993; Coren et al., 2003).

Not exact matches

One likely «scenario» is that people with mental illness gravitate toward spiritual paths that are less rule driven (not to mention less likely to treat them as outcasts due to the societal stigma of mental illness) in order to feel supported.

To make matters worse, societal stigmas continue to make it explicitly difficult to acknowledge depression as a legitimate illness.

Fathers play a unique role in their children's lives and development, but some fathers face personal or societal barriers to positive involvement with their children — such as low levels of education, stigma from criminal records, declining wages for low - skilled men, or family instability.

On a more macro level, stigma can dictate societal priorities, as when homophobia funnels money away from effective HIV programs.

Participants spoke about the stigma as stemming from societal institutions such as religion (suicide as a sin), the law (suicide as a crime), medicine (suicide as a mental illness) as well as general cultural beliefs that value «toughness» when people are facing adversity.