Not exact matches
There simply were not enough baby
boys born
during the war years to provide husbands for the bumper crop of
girls born in 1947,» 48, and ’49 (given the then - custom for women to marry men a year or two older
than themselves).
A recent report by United Press trust of India (UPI) stated that
during the past three years more
than 2,500 young
boys and
girls were sacrificed to goddess Kali in India.
One study showed that women who had morning sickness severely enough to be hospitalized
during their pregnancy were slightly more likely to have
girls rather
than boys.
While babies» birth weights were similar in fasting and non-fasting Saudi women, the placentas of women who had fasted
during the second or third trimester were 3 per cent lighter
than average when the child was a
boy and 1.5 per cent lighter for
girls (Placenta, DOI: 10.1016 / j.placenta.2010.04.010).
About 40 per cent of all
boys and 27 per cent of all
girls had had sex with more
than one partner
during the 12 months preceding the survey.
The findings add to the growing evidence that
girls with autism may show symptoms differently
than boys, and that some of the social difficulties experienced by females with autism may be masked
during clinical assessments.
«Women survive crises better
than men: Newborn
girls are hardier
than newborn
boys during famines, epidemics.»
Female adults had a higher response rate to language blocks initiated by infant
girls than boys during the newborn period and at 44 weeks» PMA.
In fact, in one study, a dose of mercury sufficient to kill 1 percent of lab rats (lethal dose «LD01»), when combined with a dose of lead sufficient to kill 1 percent, killed 100 percent of the rats.13 A similar test involving mercury and aluminum in cultured neurons killed 60 percent of the cells when the two low - dose toxicants (LD01) were combined.14 Even antibiotics have been shown to enhance the uptake, retention and toxicity of mercury.14 Additionally, testosterone appears to aggravate mercury toxicity
during development, while estrogen protects against it.15 This may explain why more
boys than girls are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders and attention deficit disorders.
In contrast to migraine prevalence in adults, in childhood,
boys are afflicted more
than girls are, but
during puberty and adolescence the incidence shifts, and
girls are affected more (1).
On our way back to the car,
during one conversation he put his arm around my shoulders, which as a
girl (who probably is worse at reading signs
than she thinks, given the Henley
Boy history!)
But for these
girls, this was better
than relieving themselves outside
during the school day, in the open, where they felt self - conscious and they worried that
boys and men would watch them or, worse, hurt them.
During the years, the Association has donated more
than $ 7 million to numerous charities that include
Boys and
Girls Clubs of Broward County, Joe DiMaggio Hospital, YMCA, Alzheimer's Association Sheridan House, Museum of Art, American Cancer Society, Historic Society of Fort Lauderdale to name but a few.
Boys were more physically aggressive
than girls during childhood, but their trajectories of aggression otherwise looked similar.
Some observers have argued that female offenders can, in theory, be either adolescent - limited or life - course - persistent and that the relative scarcity of early - onset aggression in females indicates that they are generally less likely to follow the latter pathway.56 Others, however, have argued that the relative prevalence of adolescent - onset aggression in
girls (compared with childhood - onset) indicates that persistent delinquency simply manifests at a later age in
girls than it does in
boys.57 In Persephanie Silverthorn and Paul Frick's model,
girls and
boys are influenced by similar risk factors
during childhood, but the onset of delinquent behavior in
girls is delayed by the more stringent social controls imposed on them before adolescence.
Girls will demonstrate higher average levels of depressive symptoms
than adolescent
boys will
during adolescence.
Suveg et al. (2008) showed that mothers and fathers of
boys with an AD, not
girls, exhibited less positive affect and more negative affect
during emotion discussions
than did fathers and mothers of
boys without an AD.