Sentences with phrase «girls than boys before»

The fact that migraine headaches affect slightly more girls than boys before puberty, and 2 - 3x more women than men is evidence that hormones also play a role in this condition.

Not exact matches

There are also biological components to raising girls that are more challenging than boys, starting even before puberty.

These skills and behaviors come together at the different ages depending on the child, but it's rarely before the age of 18 months, and — yes, it's true — boys often train later than girls.

Girls tend to be more fearful of risk than boys because they lack confidence and usually think more before they act (this is often a good thing!)

Before the age of 1 year, though, UTIs are more common in boys than girls.

For instance, in Taiwan, investigators found that boys and girls born in August (the last month before the official school cutoff) had 63 % higher odds of being diagnosed than kids born in September.

Prior studies have found that, before puberty, boys have approximately 1.5 times higher rate of asthma than girls.

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Even less original than its pathetically uncreative title suggests, it's the story of a boy (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) and a girl (Claire Forlani) who meet from time to time throughout their young lives and pick on each other before winding up at the same college, become best friends and then complicate their relationship by falling into bed.

Research within clinical populations consistently finds that girls are more often abused than boys, although research focused on the broader population of community youth has not shown such gender differences in rates of physical maltreatment.72 Female offenders typically are abused before their first offense.73 Among girls in the California juvenile justice system, 92 percent report some form of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse.74 Self - reported victimization rates among boys in the juvenile justice system are considerably lower, though boys may be more likely than girls to underreport certain forms of abuse.75 Some studies report abuse rates for males between 25 percent and 31 percent, while others report rates of 10 percent for sexual abuse and 47 percent for physical abuse.76 Closer comparison reveals that delinquent males and females tend to report different types of traumas as well.

Two studies have identified groups of girls exhibiting chronically high levels of antisocial behavior across childhood and early adolescence and having an increased risk for continued antisocial behavior.60 In addition, Odgers and several colleagues found that 7.5 percent of all girls between the ages of seven and fifteen displayed an early - onset of offending that persisted into adolescence and that this pattern was similar to boys of the same age.61 Other studies suggest that although strongly aggressive behavior in girls before the age of seven is rare, continuity of offending for such girls may be stronger than that among comparable boys and that such early problem behavior in girls should be considered a significant warning sign of potential future problems.62

The Amato and Keith meta - analysis of studies conducted before the 1990s revealed one significant gender difference: the estimated negative effect of divorce on social adjustment was stronger for boys than girls.

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.

Before puberty, the rates of depression in girls and boys are about the same, but after puberty more girls than boys experience depression.