Sentences with phrase «half of adolescent boys»

Paul's text has helped me find in this memory a paradigm, a warm, rough model for the ministry: the ministry is like the role of the adolescent boy playing midwife to his beloved dog.

Although use of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which helps prevent against cervical and other cancers, has increased in the past 5 years, HPV vaccination remains low with only 37.6 % of adolescent girls and 13.9 % of adolescent boys receiving vaccination.

Boston Children's Hospital researchers found 17.9 percent of adolescent boys were extremely concerned about their weight and physique.

Recent excavations of a 30 - meter ash altar on Mount Lykaion in Greece, once worshipped as the birthplace of Zeus, have revealed a 3000 - year - old skeleton of an adolescent boy thought to be a human sacrifice, The Boston Globe reports.

Currently, it is recommended that teenagers perform a minimum of 60 minutes of daily exercise to prevent future disease, however according to the Health Survey for England less than 30 % of adolescent boys and 20 % of adolescent girls achieve this amount.

Researchers first caused decreased fluoride elimination in a group of adolescent boys from a fluoride - endemic area by supplying them with defluorinated water.

Marty's mother, younger and more nubile than he's ever seen her, gazes at him intently, and he clutches onto the down comforter in a manner becoming of an adolescent boy desperate to conceal an erection.

Just when you think Red Dawn's plot is about as far - fetched as it can get, the movie becomes even more of an adolescent boy's fantasy by turning the six young men and a pair of new female additions (Lea Thompson, Jennifer Grey) into capable defenders of America.

From a director who's known for his massively stylized movies (I Am Love, A Bigger Splash), this one pares it back somewhat, as it tells the story — set in 1983 — of an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents» cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera.

THE MAZE RUNNER In this adaptation of James Dashner's best - selling YA novel, a group of adolescent boys whose memories have been erased live in a kind of orphanage.

A Bright Bunch: These images, from a 2005 study in Cognitive Brain Research, show horizontal slices in the brains of adolescent boys, as measured while they were doing a spatial math problem.

On the other hand, if I were commissioned to find a teacher for a group of adolescent boys and if, by some miracle, I could secure either Socrates or the latest Ph.D. from Teachers College, with his equipment of the latest technologies and techniques of teaching, with all due respect to the college that employs me and to my students, I am fairly certain that I would jump at the chance to get Socrates.

In the second example of the adolescent boy talking to his mother, review of the context of his situation should have provided leniency.

A trio of adolescent boys, all in team jerseys, encircles a 1987 Lamborghini Countach, wide - eyed and wistful with longing while an elderly couple admire the intricate, origami - style engineering of a ’57 Ford Fairlane Skyliner's retractable hardtop.

- Booklist «Marcus» fascination with the ghostly presence of an adolescent boy, thought to have perished at Grief Cottage in a hurricane, allows Godwin to explore themes of loss, connection, and growth unfettered by the corporeal world.»

It was basically the fantasy of every adolescent boy at the time, funneled into a Nintendo game.

Anthony Goicolea is 32 but looks much younger, so he can credibly enact the rituals of adolescent boys on the cusp of manhood in videos and photographs that picture him within a crowd of towheaded youngsters, all of whom are replicas of his image.

For example, Klein and Wilson found in a national (United States) sample of adolescent boys and girls that the majority (70.9 %) report at least 1 of 8 potential health risks, but most (63 %) had not spoken to their doctor about any of these [2].

Our results indicated that mothers» dating behaviors directly influenced the sexual behaviors of adolescent boys, and indirectly influenced adolescent girls» sexuality by affecting their sexual attitudes.

The mean age at menarche in this sample was13 years (range, 8.5 - 15 years), and 46 % of the adolescent boys had their growth spurt from ages 13 to 15 years.

We can argue that secure attachment of adolescent boys to their parental figures may be more protective of developing a problematic use of Facebook.

Masculine discrepancy stress and psychosocial maladjustment: Implications for behavioral and mental health of adolescent boys.

Sibling conflict and effective parenting as predictors of adolescent boys» antisocial behavior and peer difficulties: Additive and interactional effects

Not exact matches

And the odd adolescents» such as the boy who appears out of nowhere to join a kibbutz in A Perfect Peace» retell some of Oz's own experience.

Back in Sparta, when adolescent boys strayed beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior, older men nudged them back into line.

What the bishops do in their June meeting will not be very credible if they do not forthrightly address the question of homosexuality and its obvious connection with the sexual abuse of adolescent and older teenage boys.

But the protagonist is not Dr. Dysart, not the adolescent youth, not the magistrate, not the boy's parents, but — as the title of the play indicates — Equus.

It contains the aforementioned onslaught against Playboy which exposes the pseudo-sex of the airbrushed centerfold, the ideal woman pimply adolescent boys prefer because she makes no demands whatever.

Since an adolescent love for horses is often related to the awakening of sexuality, it is possible as several critics have inferred — that the midnight horseback rides, which the boy enjoys alone and naked on Saturday nights, produce in him a wild form of orgasmic satisfaction.

In the second installment (June / July), I noted that what was at first called a «pedophilia» crisis was now recognized by almost everyone as a crisis created by adult men having sex of various sorts with adolescent and older teenage boys.

Sure... it is nothing more than adolescent boys playing a game of «let's see who has the bigger cock».

From the statistics, and after analysis from the American Linacre Centre, Lawler reports that: «Faced with that statistic, some analysts began to say that what had been seen as a crisis of paedophilia was really a matter of ephebophilia», a term meaning the sexual attraction of men towards adolescent boys.

had to do not with the number but with the nature of the sexual abuses alleged: The report states that 80 \ % to 90 \ % of priests who sexually abused children over the past 52 years had been involved with adolescent boys - ephebophilia - not prepubescent children - paedophilia.»

The average teenage boy in Los Angeles in the early»70s seemed to be a pinball of emotions and noise, bouncing off the city walls, screaming into the adolescent night.

«Muscle enhancement was particularly high among boys and those involved in sports teams,» said lead author Marla E. Eisenberg, ScD, MPH,, an assistant professor in pediatrics in the division of Adolescent Health and Medicine at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, findings consistent with earlier studies.

Many traditional cultures have rite of passage ceremonies for adolescent boys.

But even the best — adjusted of adolescents experiences some role identity diffusion: most boys and probably most girls experiment with minor delinquency; rebellion flourishes; self — doubts flood the youngster, and so on.

Here, to illustrate the connection between fatherhood and child well - being, I compare adolescent boys and girls who fall into one of four categories: those living in an intact, married family with a high - quality relationship with their father (top third), or an average - quality relationship with their father (middle third), or a low - quality relationship with him (bottom third), or living in a single - mother family.

International experts from UN Women and NGOs like Promundo are doing important work to change harmful norms of gender and masculinity through parental leave and fathers» quotas policies and education programs for adolescent boys, respectively.

This condition typically arises during the growth spurts in the adolescent years; between the ages of 8 and 13 for girls, and 10 and 15 for boys.

Boys whose fathers engaged in physical play but without excessive direction were rated as more popular by their teachers.48 Effects of fathers may vary across children's ages, with fathers of adolescent sons frequently playing important roles in those son's transitions, as seen among Arnhem land Australian aborigines.49 Among the Aka hunter - gatherers of Central African Republic, males of varying ages report that they predominantly learned subsistence and social behavioural norms from their fathers.50

A study published in the November 2004 issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health looked at the relationship between family eating patterns and disordered eating among both girls and boys.

A variety of studies suggest that fathers» engagement positively impacts their children's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive development.35

Reduced cortical thickness: Hong and colleagues found reduced cortical (the outermost part of the brain) thickness in internet - addicted teen boys (Hong 2013), and Yuan et al found reduced cortical thickness in the frontal lobe of online gaming addicts (late adolescent males and females) correlated with impairment of a cognitive task (Yuan 2013).

The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults Drawing on her research knowledge and clinical experience, internationally respected neurologist — and mother of two boys — Frances E. Jensen, M.D., offers a revolutionary look at the science of the adolescent brain, providing remarkable insights that translate into practical advice for both parents and teenagers.

Agencies receiving Operation Primetime funding in 2014 include: Access of WNY; Be-A-Friend Program (Big Brothers Big Sisters); Blossom Garden Friends School; Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo, Holland, East Aurora, Eden, Orchard Park, and the Northtowns; Buffalo Urban League; Canisius College; Child & Adolescent Treatment Services; Child & Adolescent Treatment Services (Detention); City of Lackawanna; Community Action Organization; Cradle Beach Camp; Elim Community Corp.; Erie Regional Housing Dev.

... We know the impact that this can have on adolescents, boys and girls, and we have the chance to say that we will seize the moment in policy terms to do something about it... We can end, once and for all, the hypocrisy of tabloids moaning about paedophiles on one page and then saying «hello Gemma, 16 today, first pictures of Gemma aged 16».

Agencies receiving Operation Primetime funding in 2012 include: Access of WNY, African American Cultural Center, Back to Basics, Be A Friend, Bob Lanier Center, Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora, Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Boys & Girls Club of Holland, Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Urban League, Butler Mitchell Association, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Community Action Organization, Computers for Children, Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, Cradle Beach Camp, Elim Community Corporation, Erie Regional Housing Development Corp. — Belle Center, Firsthand Learning, FLARE, Girls Sports Foundation, Greater Niagara Frontier Council — Boy Scouts, Jericho Road Ministries, Justice Lifeline, King Urban Life Center, Lackawanna Sports & Education, Making Fishers of Men & Women, National Inner City Youth Opportunities, North Buffalo CDC, Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Old First Ward Community Association, PBBC Matt Urban Center, Peace of the City, Police Athletic League, Schiller Park Community Center, Seneca Babcock Community Association, Seneca Street Community Development, Town of Tonawanda Recreation Department, UB Liberty Partnership, University District CDC, Urban Christian Ministries, Valley Community Association, Westminster Community Charter School, Westside Community Center, Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education, WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Young Audiences, Community Action Organization (Detention), Firsthand Learning (Detention), Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education (Detention).

Agencies receiving Year - Round funding in 2014 include: Access of WNY, Inc. ($ 10,000), African Cultural Center of Buffalo, Inc. ($ 8,500), Be-A-Friend Program, Inc. (Big Brothers Big Sisters)($ 7,500), Blossom Garden Friends School ($ 3,000), Boys & Girls Club of Buffalo, Inc. ($ 7,500), Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Inc. ($ 5,000), Boys & Girls Club of Northtowns of WNY, Inc. ($ 12,500), Boys & Girls Club of Orchard Park, Inc. ($ 5,000), Boys and Girls Club East Aurora, Inc. ($ 15,000), Buffalo Urban League, Inc. ($ 12,500), Canisius College ($ 5,000), Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Inc. ($ 5,500), Child and Family Services of Erie County (Haven House)($ 10,000), Compeer West, Inc. ($ 10,000), Computers for Children, Inc. ($ 7,500), Cradle Beach Camp, Inc. ($ 12,500), Daemen College ($ 10,000), Elim Community Corporation ($ 5,000), Erie Regional Housing Dev.

In 2015, among U.S. adolescents ages 13 to 17, six out of 10 girls and five out of 10 boys had gotten at least one shot in a three - shot series.