Sentences with phrase «in teenage pregnancy»

Additionally, the bill appears to dramatically decrease funding for the evidence - based Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) program that has made strides in teenage pregnancy prevention across the Nation.

Adolescent Mothers in Later Life will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in teenage pregnancy.

We also examined the relationship between the frequency and severity of the exposure to adverse childhood events and the risk of involvement in a teenage pregnancy.

Arizona has led the nation in teenage pregnancy for far too long.

I'm not suggesting that entertainment is thin on the ground in my mum's town, but since I'm too old to join in the teenage pregnancy sweepstakes, too miserly to join in the Trafford Centre bling - athon and too classy to join in the Yates's Wine Lodge sponsored heave, I'm relying on the good old cathode rays to tide me over the coming week.

so that we have one coherent intervention that will lead to a drop in teenage pregnancy»

• explain current policy requirements for mainstreaming father - inclusive practice across all teenage pregnancy and Children's Centre services; • offer guidance on key steps to take to enhance outcomes for children through developing father - inclusive services; • showcase examples of effective father - inclusive practice in teenage pregnancy and Children's Centre services; • help managers plan their response to this increasingly important policy agenda.

• The National Service Framework for Children, Young People & Maternity Services (September 2004), and the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy (June 1999, updated in Teenage Pregnancy Next Steps, July 2006), require Children's Services to engage systematically with fathers and mothers to improve children's wellbeing; and consult with both parents over service design.

This means that practitioners who reach out to young dads — in teenage pregnancy, youth services, early years, health, education, housing — can find themselves doing a MUCH better job all round.

Case study (Young Fathers): Mainstreaming engagement in a Teenage Pregnancy Service Mainstreaming engagement with young fathers in its service for young parents is a serious concern for Hull's Teenage Pregnancy Support Service.

It leads the nation in teenage pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse, divorce, domestic violence, unemployment, obesity and general stupidity.

The paper concludes: «Irrespective of either the matching or the adjustment procedure, we are unable to find evidence that schemes allowing emergency birth control leads to reductions in teenage pregnancy rates» — in other words, whichever way we looked at the data, there was no evidence that confidential pharmacy EBC schemes lead to reductions in teenage pregnancy rates.

In fact, an error in the data later came to light and, once this had been corrected (published in an erratum in a later issue of the Journal), it became clear that there was actually no significant change in teenage pregnancy rates.

Furthermore, some anti-natalist organizations maintain those clinics which, violating the rights of parents, promote promiscuity and consequently an increase in teenage pregnancies.»

We are now paying the price of that blind and irresponsible folly — in a drug war that we are not winning, in burgeoning crime that has made city neighborhoods uninhabitable, in teenage pregnancies and «children having children,» in rampant abortions, swelling welfare roles, sexually transmitted diseases, self - indulgent neglect of community good, and countless ruined lives.

The increase in teenage pregnancies in the Sissala East District of the Upper West Region has become a major concern apart from the incidence of child marriages in the district.

Johnson takes no stand on the argument that the increasing use of violence and sex in the games and on TV is having deleterious effects on society, but he does note the drop in murder and crime generally that has occurred in tandem with the rise of the video game (and he might also have pointed to the drop in teenage pregnancies).

Not exact matches

A reduction in illiteracy, she reasoned, could improve numerous ills that concerned her, including homelessness, teenage pregnancies, hunger and crime.

And according the United Nations, the Philippines is the only Asian country where the teenage pregnancy rate has risen in the past two decades.

Phoebe Thompson, editor of Premier Youthwork Magazaine thinks a number of factors are behind the changes in teenage behavior, on Premier's «News Hour» programme, she said: «the government has taken to make smoking less appealing by covering packets and also putting the long term effects on there, and also the rise of contraception and better sex education probably has contributed to the lowering of teenage pregnancies».

According to the Daily Mail, Jane Ellison, the public health minister, commented: «Trends in the drinking, smoking and teenage pregnancy rates for young people are very encouraging.

Epidemiologists have found that when the incarceration rate rises in a county, there tends to be a subsequent increase in the rates of sexually transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancy, possibly because women have less power to require their partners to practice protected sex or remain monogamous.

The research evidence on this question is hard to deny and right in line with the predictions of the economic models: prohibition of secret abortions cuts both teenage abortion rates and teenage pregnancy rates.

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.

The absence of fathers in families is clearly linked to higher rates of poverty, youth crime and teenage pregnancy, says the think - tank report.

Let us assume we want to compare teenage pregnancy rates in those areas that have introduced the policy and those that have not.

Apart from the fact that it may cause a very early abortion (which of course would not get picked up in the official teenage pregnancy figures), it differs from common methods of family planning in several ways.

For example, areas with the scheme might be those in with high levels of deprivation and where teenage pregnancy rates were increasing.

This involves making sure that the areas ingroups with and without the schemes are similar in other respects unemployment, educational levels, ethnic mix, starting teenage pregnancy rates and so on.

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 ubiquitouIn 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 ubiquitouin 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 ubiquitouin 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.

Britain has the highest rates in Europe of teenage pregnancy, venereal diseases among the young, and abortions of the young.

The policy followed to date has not resulted in reduced teenage pregnancies.

According to Chief Justice Rehnquist, Congress» 1981 decision to augment the role of religious and other organizations in tackling the social and economic problems caused by teenage pregnancy, sexuality, and parenthood reflected «the entirely appropriate aim of increasing broad - based community involvement...» He went on to say, with respect to religious organizations in particular:

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.

Alabama and Mississippi: the most unhealthy region (e.g., the most obese, the most with cardiovascular diseases and etc.), the highest illiteracy rate, the highest teenage pregnancy rates, the most cities ranking in the top 25 most crimes, the most likely to regect scientific facts, the least taxed, the least to be unionized thus the highest proportion of the population in poverty... and of course, the most religious....

Of course, after years of sex education in schools we have not managed to stem the high rates of teenage pregnancy or been able to prevent ever increasing rates of sexually transmitted disease.

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.

We might also add to this the fact that the USA has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the world.

ATIA was designed primarily for Birmingham Catholic schools to address the disproportionate number of teenage pregnancies in the city in the late 1990's.

Girls without a father in the home are seven to eight times more likely to experience a teenage pregnancy.

But I worry that if I leave my children to cry it out, then they will not see the point in reaching out to us if they have problems later in life and could try to deal with serious issues like bullying, drug addictions, teenage pregnancy, gambling problems, or flunking out of school on their own or turn to peers.

Course participants will gain clear understanding of how effective work with boys and young men can be developed; increase in confidence and ability to ensure that policies are put into practice; and increase in confidence and ability to ensure that work with young men is integrated into teenage pregnancy strategies.

The UK has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in Western Europe, children born to teen mums are among the most vulnerable of all children — and in African Caribbean cultures, early pregnancy is still very common.

The Toolkit is designed to help managers and practitioners meet the strong policy requirements for father - inclusive services coming from the Department for Children, Schools and Families, and elsewhere: in the Children's Centre Guidance, the Childcare Act 2006, the National Services Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services, the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, the Gender Equality Duty (in the Equality Act, 2006), and so on.

• There is also tentative evidence from the US of a link between strong child support enforcement and reduced pregnancy and pregnancy resolution in teenage girls, with the strongest effect for non-Hispanic whites (Plotnick et al, 2004).

In the Netherlands, where teenage pregnancies are far less frequent than in the United States, parents aim above all for family cohesiveness, often permitting young couples to sleep together and providing them with contraceptiveIn the Netherlands, where teenage pregnancies are far less frequent than in the United States, parents aim above all for family cohesiveness, often permitting young couples to sleep together and providing them with contraceptivein the United States, parents aim above all for family cohesiveness, often permitting young couples to sleep together and providing them with contraceptives.

However, recent practice suggests that if professionals systematically gather the young men's details by, for instance, routinely asking the mothers for them early in the pregnancy, develop interagency working while making child outcomes the focus of their work and mainstream engagement through the service (in this case, a teenage pregnancy service) while keeping good records and comprehensively assessing the young men's needs substantial numbers of young fathers can be reached with interventions that make a real difference.

Father - inclusive services are required by the Children's Centre Guidance, the Childcare Act 2006, the National Services Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services, the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, the Gender Equality Duty (in the Equality Act, 2006) and other policy documents.

Grants received from Sure Start and the Teenage Pregnancy Unit meant extensive support work was already underway for young mothers in the region.