Sentences with phrase «boys are at greater risk»

Perhaps unsurprisingly, boys are at greater risk for increases in criminal propensities than girls.

Richard Whitmire is a longtime education reporter and editorial writer who has chronicled a critical shift in the national education debate: While it was once presumed that girls were falling behind in school, now it appears that boys are at greater risk.

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In fact, they are likely at greater risk of damage — at least that's what we've learned from the standard childhood vaccinations, which negatively affect two to three times more boys than girls.

Girls who physically matured earlier than average, or boys who matured later than average, were at greater risk, just as they are today.

Girls are at a greater risk than boys of being abused by a family member.

When I took a group of at - risk high - school boys from the inner - city of Chicago to volunteer at a homeless shelter, numerous residents commended the boys, telling them «It's so great to see you all in here helping people instead of being out on the street gang - banging.»

In fact, autistic boys between the ages of 10 and 20 had twice the risk of breast enlargement if they were on the drug, and a 14 % greater chance of suffering from at least one form of sexual dysfunction.

Though it is difficult to say what effect the absence of any one man's father had on him beyond what he tells you and what could be assumed by his current behaviors, studies do show that boys who were raised without fathers are at greater risk for academic - career failure and social maladjustment than those who are raised in two parent households.

We can conclude that obese children are more likely to experience psychological or psychiatric problems than non-obese children, that girls are at greater risk than boys, and that risk of psychological morbidity increases with age.

Girls who bully are more likely than boys to be rejected by peers, putting them at even greater risk for chronic offending.94

Although girls with CP appear at greater risk than boys for presenting comorbid depression, empirical research on gender differences in these associations is even sparser.