Sentences with phrase «as teenage pregnancies»

This includes areas such as youth services, early years and sixth forms as well as teenage pregnancies and drugs awareness.
Absolutely, they become as a teenage pregnancy.
As of 18 January 2018, information on why children are being educated outside of schools, such as teenage pregnancy and mental health issues will be recorded and collected.
Davis catalogues a variety of benefits accruing to people in intact marriages, including school completion and avoidance of problems (such as teenage pregnancy, drugs and delinquent behavior).
* Children are more likely to finish school and avoid problems such as teenage pregnancy, drug abuse, and delinquent behavior.
This is of particular relevance, as teenage pregnancy is associated with serious health problems in South Africa (Vundule et al., 2001).
Across the country, the use of LARCs among adolescent girls has been increasing even as teenage pregnancy rates have been falling, according to Heather Boonstra, director of public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit advocacy organization for sexual and reproductive health issues.

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Obviously, so the argument goes, if we want to cut teenage pregnancies and abortions we must have access to sexual health services — in other words, teenagers are less likely to get pregnant if they are using contraception; failing contraception, then we should give them access to the morning - after pill, which may be seen as preferable to a twelve - year - old getting pregnant.
So there is much to be worried about, especially with regard to the continuing pressures the Church faces to conform to the perceived wisdom about how to respond to problems such as early sexual activity, teenage pregnancy and STIs.
In 1999, we are no longer reduced to «guessing» whether he was inspired or speaking only as a man: • adultery has lost its moral significance and become commonplace; • chastity has become a symbol of unhealthy development; • contraception in expectation of fornication is taught to children in the schools; • respect between the sexes has been replaced by mutual exploitation and / or competition; • marriage has lost its sacramental nature and its enduring promise; • statistically, divorce is common, teenage pregnancy is widespread, single parent and serially parented families increase, sexual disease is epidemic, intercourse is recreational, abortion is ubiquitous.
Teenage pregnancy is being cited as one of — if not the leading cause — of delinquency and crime, and it has been proven to have a direct bearing on behavior problems in school and academic performance.
Like It Is which is run by Marie Stopes International (MSI) and is described as a website for 11 - 15 year olds, providing advice on issues such as contraception, periods, teenage pregnancy, sex and sexuality.
Congress identified the following purposes: the promotion of «self - discipline and other prudent approaches to the problem of adolescent premarital sexual relations,» the promotion of adoption as an alternative for adolescent parents, the development of new approaches to the delivery of care to pregnant teenage girls, and the support of research and demonstration projects «concerning the societal causes and consequences of adolescent premarital sexual relations, contraceptive use, pregnancy, and child rearing.»
However, in a recent article in TIME magazine called «Postcard: Gloucester» (June 30, 2008, p. 8), it was reported that Gloucester (MA) High School is seeing four times the number of teenage pregnancies as last year.
With a series of multicolor charts, Barton shows that beginning in 1962 the number of teenage pregnancies, divorces and single - parent families went up, as did rates for sexually transmitted diseases and violent crime.
Then the newly elected Labour Government identified reducing teenage pregnancy as a key target for the Departments of Health and Education.
The programme is aimed at 14 year olds upwards and meets the requirements of the teenage pregnancy strategy as both a prevention and support initiative.
The Roundtables for Teenage Pregnancy Co-ordinators and Children's Centre Managers will take place as follows:
As there are high number of teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, sex education is important for children.
Now, the 25 - year - old mother of two is sharing her story of teenage pregnancy, motherhood, and chasing personal dreams as a family.
«Every government initiative, including the HPV [Human papillomavirus] vaccine, will increase [teenage infertility], but as all the targets revolve around pregnancy, no - one in power knows how many young people they are making sterile and nobody cares», it read.
As Alison Hadley, who led the government's successful teenage pregnancy strategy, said, school classes can help protect schools against predators.
As pointed out above, the «broken society» narrative is not just about crime or teenage pregnancy.
She indicated that lack of jobs for the youth, teenage pregnancy and adolescent marriages are some of the major concerns of the region therefore pleaded with government to ensure the Central region is fully considered in the implementation of these initiatives to facilitate job creation as well as provide soft loans to enable women especially build businesses and their capacity.
It was perceived as being part of the problem, though: after it was enacted, unwanted teenage pregnancies still needed tackling.
Child marriage and teenage pregnancy have been identified as some of the causes of increasing maternal deaths, infant mortality, under - weight and mal - nourishment in children the Brong - Ahafo Region and Ghana as a whole.
Britain as a whole has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Western Europe.
According to them, as a result this, teenage pregnancy has sky rocked in the area leading to unnecessary school drop - out in the Assin Land.
In support of this, as adults we should endeavour to equip young people with the knowledge and resources to be able to protect themselves against STIs, unintended pregnancy and their consequences; earlier advertising of condoms and pregnancy advisory services will be a step forward in meeting this aim and may contribute to lowering high rates of teenage pregnancy as part of a concerted strategy.
«Teenage pregnancy poses a serious risk to the health of teen mothers and their babies, and to society as a whole, which has to pay the economic and social costs of teen pregnancy, «said Dr. Gale R. Burstein, Erie County Commissioner of Health.
The situation has also led to increasing social vices such as robbery stealing, rape, teenage pregnancies among others.
Parental bereavement in childhood has been robustly linked to impaired academic performance, higher rates of teenage pregnancy and drug and alcohol abuse, as well as a range of mental health disorders as adults.
One, my intent is not Teenage pregnancy, also known as adolescent pregnancy, is pregnancy in females under the age of 20.
Teenage pregnancy, also known as adolescent pregnancy, is pregnancy in females under the age of 20.
On the internal evidence for the dating of 1 Clement, Welborn writes (The Anchor Bible Dictionary, v. 1, p. 1060): The Teenage pregnancy, also known as adolescent pregnancy, is pregnancy in females under the age of 20.
The lack of happening sometimes feels anti-dramatic rather than lived in, the stakes discounted because they're not about action in the wider world as if the struggles of teenage pregnancy in a judgmental and unforgiving society didn't offer enough dramatic fodder.
Working as a doctor on a pregnancy ward, Miller lives with the horrors of teenage pregnancy on a daily basis.
Dedicated to «improving public education,» each issue of the four - page report was devoted to a single topic, such as reading, special education, teacher contracts, or teenage pregnancy.
The new study by Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff asks whether high - value - added teachers (i.e., teachers who raise student test scores) also have positive longer - term impacts on students, as reflected in college attendance, earnings, avoiding teenage pregnancy, and the quality of the neighborhood in which they reside as adults.
All are available as single lessons as my shop and have excellent ratings from Tes users: EC Resources Unit a) British Values - Tolerance Communication and Teamwork Skills (2 lessons) Consent Domestic Conflict and Running Away From Home Emotional Literacy and Self - Awareness Enterprise and Entrepreneurs Global Citizenship Unit b) Internet Safety and Online Grooming LGBT Homophobia Personal Safety and First Aid Prejudice + Discrimination - Teens in the Media Stereotypes and Disabilities Teenage Pregnancy Personal Goals and Target Setting
Teenage pregnancy often limits the future of the child as well as the parents.
But family structures haven't been ravaged by drugs, violence and teenage pregnancy to the same extent as surrounding predominantly African - American neighborhoods on the south and west sides.
As a state that adheres to «abstinence only» education, it is unwise and unfair to proclaim that teenage drinking is the activity that causes teen pregnancy.
Section 1003.42 (2)(n), Florida State Statutes Required Instruction - Comprehensive health education that addresses concepts of community health; consumer health; environmental health; family life, including an awareness of the benefits of sexual abstinence as the expected standard and the consequences of teenage pregnancy; mental and emotional health; injury prevention and safety; Internet safety; nutrition; personal health; prevention and control of disease; and substance use and abuse.
These kinds of interventions typically produce cognitive gains that last a few years and then fade — but, more important, also produce better life outcomes, such as less crime, fewer teenage pregnancies, higher high school graduation rates, and higher incomes.
The Connecticut Department of Education, for example, provides a program known as the Support for Pregnant and Parenting Teenagers (SPPT) grant, which operates in the five districts statewide with the highest rates of teenage pregnancy.
These moving stories explore spiritual insights on universal themes such as grief, alcoholism, marriage breakup, domestic violence, teenage pregnancy, poverty and homelessness.
The quality of relationships parents make with their children predicts healthy eating, 3 and the only programmes which have an (albeit modest) impact in reversing childhood obesity are programmes which offer development of parenting skills as well as lifestyle advice.4 5 Adverse parenting is also a risk factor for the adoption of smoking, 6 alcohol and drug misuse, 6 teenage pregnancy, 6 and poor mental health in children, 7 adolescents8 9 and adults.10 11 It is possible to show that adverse parenting and poor quality parent — child relationships are risk factors for poor health in general6 12 — 14 and symptoms of poor physical health6 12 13 in childhood and adulthood, as well as cardiovascular disease, 6 13 cancer, 6 13 musculoskeletal problems, 6 13 injury15 and mortality6 in later life.
To better address these issues, we analyzed data from 4127 men who provided reproductive histories and information about childhood exposure to abuse as part of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study.15 Because of the considerable prevalence of adult male involvement in teen pregnancy, we included males who were > 19 years old when they impregnated a teenage girl.
Fact: The marriage of unwed teenage parents «increases the chances that additional pregnancies will occur; as a result, educational attainment and employment earnings suffer, and marital conflict and dissatisfaction are probable.»
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